Online Emotional Regulation Group Treatment
Completed · Phase 1
Conditions studied: Traumatic Brain Injury, Executive Dysfunction, Emotional Dysregulation
In brief
This study will examine the feasibility of online delivery of emotional regulation training to individuals with TBI with emotional dysregulation. 80 subjects with significant emotional dysregulation will be enrolled and will receive 24 60-minute emotional regulation sessions twice a week for 12 weeks, delivered online in group modality. Attendance and compliance will be tracked, and outcomes will be monitored using online data collection methods. Treatment satisfaction and participant subjective experience will also be assessed.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01730261
- Run by
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- People needed
- 147
- Starts
- 2012-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-10-02
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Documented TBI of any severity and being at least 6 months post injury
- Presence of executive dysfunction, manifested as self-reported difficulties with emotional and behavioral self-regulation, operationalized as endorsement of 25% or more of the symptoms on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS, Gratz \& Roemer, 2004).
- Currently aged 18 or older
- English speaking
- At least low average intellectual functioning, operationalized as a minimum Verbal IQ score of 80 on the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
- Ownership of and relative facility with use of a computer, webcam, and microphone
- Access to a broadband internet connection at sufficiently high speed to allow videoconference
You may not qualify if…
- DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of alcohol or substance abuse within past 6 months
- DSM-IV-TR of psychosis within past 6 months
- High suicidality, operationalized as a score of 17 or higher on the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I., Sheehan et al., 2008)
- Participation in this study will not preclude participation in other treatments.
Where it is running
- The Brain Injury Research Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — New York, New York, United States
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