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Emotion Regulation Program for Substance Use Disorders

NCT07698821 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2026-07-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study examines whether a newly developed eight-session psychosocial treatment program, called the Emotion Regulation Program, can be delivered in real-world hospital settings to people receiving inpatient care for substance use disorders in Korea, and whether it shows early signs of benefit. The program combines motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy, and group activities, and is delivered twice a week over about four weeks (eight 50-minute sessions). About 20 adults will take part at two psychiatric hospitals.

Participants complete brief questionnaires and a short interview about their craving, motivation to change, difficulties in emotion regulation, self-compassion, depression, and drug use history before the program, immediately before and after each session, within one week after the program ends, and again at 1 month and 3 months after completion. After the program, some participants also join a small group discussion (focus group interview) to share their experience of the program.

Because this is a small, single-group preliminary (pilot) study without a comparison group, its primary purpose is to assess feasibility, that is, whether the program and the assessment approach work well enough, and to obtain preliminary effect and variability estimates to inform the design of a future large-scale randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

  • Substance Use Disorder (SUD)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emotion Regulation Program

Eight 50-minute group sessions delivered twice weekly over approximately four weeks. Session 1: understanding emotions and following the body's signals. Session 2: emotion regulation strategies I (grounding oneself through the senses when shaken). Session 3: emotion regulation strategies II (practicing choice rather than being swept away by emotion). Session 4: building a personal emotion-response scenario for moments of crisis. Session 5: facing the self-critical voice. Session 6: protecting oneself with warmth in difficult moments. Session 7: noticing and savoring positive moments. Session 8: organizing a personal emotion-regulation routine to sustain going forward. Core techniques are motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy, and group therapy, incorporating emotion-regulation and self-compassion skills.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Catholic University of Korea

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hae Kook Lee · The Catholic University of Korea

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-09-30
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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