Status:
COMPLETED
Acceptance and Commitment Group Therapy (ACT) for Patients With Health Anxiety
Lead Sponsor:
University of Aarhus
Conditions:
Hypochondriasis
Somatization Disorder
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-60 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in groups on functional level, emotional problems, and use of health care in patients with severe health...
Detailed Description
Health anxiety disorder or Hypochondriasis is a prevalent somatoform disorder, but a rarely used diagnosis in clinical practice despite studies having reported prevalence between 0.8-9.5% in primary c...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Whiteley-7 score on 21,4 or more (scale 0-100 score points).
- Severe health anxiety (diagnosed by SCAN interview).
- Age 20-60 years
- Patients of Scandinavian origin who understand, read, write and speak Danish.
- No lifetime-diagnosis of psychoses, bipolar affective disorder or depression with psychotic symptoms (ICD-10: F20-29, F30-31, F32.3, F33.3)
- In case of a co morbid functional or other psychiatric disorder health anxiety must be the dominating problem.
- Exclusion criteria:
- Another severe psychiatric disorder or if the patient is suicidal.
- Abuse of narcotics or alcohol and (non-prescribed) medicine.
- Pregnancy.
- No informed consent.
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
126 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01158430
Start Date
March 1 2010
End Date
April 1 2013
Last Update
April 15 2013
Active Locations (1)
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The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus C, Denmark, 8000