Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Inpatient Treatment of Psychosis

Completed · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Psychotic Disorders

In brief

There is a substantial need for enhancing the efficacy and effectiveness of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) inpatient services for psychosis and tailoring them to support recovery. The proposed pilot study will explore whether Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a recovery-oriented, evidence-based inpatient treatment, is a feasible, acceptable, safe, and effective adjunct for the inpatient treatment of Veterans with psychosis at a single VHA site. Additionally, an evaluation of barriers and facilitators to future implementation will be conducted. If promising, the data gained from the proposed study will support future evaluation, implementation and dissemination efforts that have the potential to improve inpatient treatment for psychosis and recovery, and thus, the lives of Veterans, while reducing costs for VHA.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01981356

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

18

Starts

2014-09-01

Expected to finish

2015-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-04-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Inclusion criteria for the patient sample, used to establish feasibility, acceptability, safety, and efficacy of the experimental treatment, will be:
• hospitalized with current psychosis symptoms (hallucinations and/or delusions);
• DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000) diagnosis of a psychotic disorder (i.e., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder, brief psychotic disorder, psychotic disorder not otherwise specified) or a mood disorder with psychotic features (major depression, bipolar I disorder) that requires hospitalization;
• ability to provide informed consent ;
• conversational in English; and
• patient stay on the unit estimated in advance to be greater than one week.
• Inclusion criteria for the staff sample, used to identify barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the experimental treatment, will be
• ability to provide informed consent and
• conversational in English.

You may not qualify if…

• None.

Where it is running

• VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA — Palo Alto, California, United States

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