Targeting Stress Reactivity in Schizophrenia: Integrated Coping Awareness Therapy
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Schizophreniform Disorders
In brief
To test the feasibility of a clinical trial implementing I-CAT, a novel therapeutic intervention combining strategies to improve stress reactivity and increase meaningful coping, as well as a range of possible proximal (e.g. autonomic, endocrine, immune indices of stress reactivity, symptom severity) and distal measures (function, relapse, quality of life) for 40 people with first episode psychosis in the context of a small randomized controlled trial.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03067311
- Run by
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- People needed
- 38
- Starts
- 2016-10-03
- Expected to finish
- 2020-03-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-03-03
Who can join
Age: 15 and older, up to 35. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- meets Diagnostic and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) criteria for schizophrenia spectrum disorder according diagnostic checklist completed by individual's clinician
- age 15 to 35, both genders, and any ancestry
- currently receiving services from UNC OASIS, Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program (STEP), or a community clinic
- willing and able to provide informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- greater than 8 years of antipsychotic and/or psychological treatment for psychosis
- Intelligence Quotient (IQ) less than 80
- low stress level as reported by clinician or participant
- meets criteria for current substance dependence
- been hospitalized in the past month
- actively practicing meditation in the past year
Where it is running
- UNC OASIS Carrboro — Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
- UNC STEP — Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
- UNC Oasis Wake — Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- UNC Wake STEP — Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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