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diSCover – Digital Language Mediation in the Context of Trauma-Related Disorders and Therapy Needs Among Asylum Seekers and Their Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Video-Based and In-Person Language Mediation

diSCover – Digital Language Mediation in the Context of Trauma-Related Disorders and Therapy Needs Among Asylum Seekers and Their Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Video-Based and In-Person Language Mediation

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00036281
Enrollment
126
Registered
2025-03-04
Start date
2025-04-08
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-03-02

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Conditions

Traumatic experience according to DSM-5

Interventions

Group 1: Video-based language mediation in trauma-focused psychotherapy (baseline assessment, 3 measurement points during therapy, final assessment) Group 2: In-person language mediation in trauma-foc

Sponsors

Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität Dresden
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: -Refugees and people with a migration background, treated in the trauma outpatient clinic of the PSO (Psychosocial Oncology) at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, who require language mediation for treatment. - Traumatic experience according to DSM-5 (APA, 2015). - Capacity to consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - Acute psychotic disorder - Severe acute suicidality

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Acceptance of video-based versus in-person language mediation in trauma focused therapy, patients, psychotherapists, and language mediators, across three consecutive therapy sessions involving video/in-person language mediation (T1, T2, T3), measured by a brief assessment of language mediation developed for the study for patients, psychotherapists, and therapists (SMILE-D - Sprachmittlungserhebung-diSCocer). Further questionnaires answered in the baseline assessment T0: SANB-5 - Scale of Fear of Negative Evaluation-5, PDS-Checklist - Posttraumatic Disorder Scale-Trauma Checklist, ITQ - International Trauma Questionnaire, GAD-7 - Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, PHQ-9 - Patient Health Questionnaire, EQ-5D-5L - European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 5 Level Version, WHO-5 - World Health Organization Well-Being Index.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
(1) Subjective sense of safety of patients in trauma focused therapy with video-based versus in-person language mediation, across three consecutive therapy sessions with video/in-person language mediation (T1, T2, T3), measured by a brief assessment developed for the study; (2) Influence of evaluation anxiety on the subjective sense of safety of patients, baseline assessment (T0) of evaluation anxiety, self-report questionnaire SANB-5 - Scale of Fear of Negative Evaluation-5, brief assessment developed for the study T1, T2, T3); (3) Changes in symptom severity (PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety), health-related quality of life, and general well-being, baseline assessment (T0), final assessment (T4), ITQ - International Trauma Questionnaire, GAD-7 - Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, PHQ-9 - Patient Health Questionnaire, EQ-5D-5L - European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 5 Level Version, WHO-5 - World Health Organization Well-Being Index.

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactJulia Schellong

Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität Dresden

julia.schellong@ukdd.de+49 351 458 17092

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 14, 2026