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Conditions
Brief summary
This project will primarily examine whether a group psychological treatment for clinical perfectionism is better than being on an eight-week waitlist in a) reducing individuals' levels of clinical perfectionism, b) reducing their symptoms of anxiety, depression, and/or eating concerns and c) improving their quality of life. It is predicted that the group treatment will lead to greater reductions in clinical perfectionism, greater reductions in psychological symptoms, and greater increases in quality of life compared to the waitlist control condition. Additionally this project will examine whether group psychological treatment for clinical perfectionism produces treatment-related change in each individual and whether this is clinically significant.
Interventions
Intervention: Group cognitive behavioural therapy for clinical perfectionism. In this intervention participants receive 8 x 2-hour sessions of group therapy over 8 weeks, where they learn strategies to reduce their clinical perfectionism. The strategies are derived from the book Overcoming Perfectionism: A Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (Shafran, Egan & Wade, 2010).
Sponsors
Associate Professor Clare Rees, Principal Investigator of the study
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Aged 18 years or over; Clinical levels of perfectionism as defined by a score of 24.7 or greater on the Concern Over Mistakes Scale (Frost et al., 1990); Willing to not engage in other psychological treatment between baseline assessment and six month follow-up assessment; if on anti-depressant medication participants must have been stable on this medication for at least one month before their baseline assessment, and they must also be willing to remain on the same dosage of the same medication from the time of their baseline assessment until their six month follow-up assessment.
Exclusion criteria
Adults who report high suicidal ideation on the Suicidality module of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI; Sheehan et al., 1998); Adults who meet DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000) criteria for alcohol or substance dependence; Adults who meet DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000) criteria for psychosis and/or schizophrenia; Adults who wish to receive other forms of psychological treatment during the study; Adults who currently meet DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000) criteria for anorexia nervosa, and/or those who have an extremely low body weight (i.e., Body Mass Index < 17.5).
Outcome results
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