CBT Based Group Therapy for Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Cognitive Change
- Psychological Adaptation
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentIntervention Model Description: Research group, 35-40 participants (8 sessions in 4 months) Control group (health and lifestyle counselling), 35-40 participants (6 sessions in 3 months)Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)Masking Description: Laboratory measurements autonomic nervous system ganglio antibodies.Primary Purpose: Treatment
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 65 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Testing and inventories before treatment/ at the end of the treatment and 3 months follow-up: Inventories: PHQ-4, HADS, BDQ,CFQ, PRMQ, FSS, WHODAS 2.0, SOC- 29, YSQ L3a, Compass31, Pichot, Promis (general health v 1.2 and fatique 7a) and PARKSLEEP. Manual and patients experience. n =6-8 patients. Go...
Testing and inventories before treatment/ at the end of the treatment and 3 months follow-up: Inventories: PHQ-4, HADS, BDQ,CFQ, PRMQ, FSS, WHODAS 2.0, SOC- 29, YSQ L3a, Compass31, Pichot, Promis (general health v 1.2 and fatique 7a) and PARKSLEEP. Manual and patients experience. n =6-8 patients. Goal is to collect patients' personal experiences about CBT- treatment. Analysis included inventories, laboratory measurements and transcribed interviews. Mixed methods (comparing statistical data and qualitative content analysis/ agency speech transformation). Therapeutic interventions and agency-speech transformation in CBT-therapy sessions. CBT- sessions are taped and transcribed. Research method: qualitative approach with discourse analysis (agency speech transformation during the intervention, therapeutical interventions in the group therapy) Randomized controlled research. n=70. Treatment/research group n=35. Control- group (35) participates on health counselling (6 sessions). Research question: is CBT-treatment clinically statistically significance. Comparison is between research- and control groups but also between patients who are diagnosed 93.3, having also objective impairment in cognitive functions or orthostatic intolerance, comparing to patients only diagnosed on G93.3.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04151693
- Collaborators
- Not Provided
- Investigators
- Study Chair: Juhani Sand, professor Päijät- Häme Joint Authority for Health and Wellbeing
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