Online cognitive behavioral therapy for distress in people who lost a loved one during the corona pandemic: A randomized waitlist-controlled trial

The effectiveness of an online cognitive behavioral therapy for distress in people who lost a loved one during the corona pandemic: A randomized waitlist-controlled trial

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON24930

Enrollment

Registered

2020-10-21

Start date

2020-07-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder

Interventions

The online grief-specific unguided CBT is targeted at people with clinically relevant levels of distress (PCBD, PTSD and/or MDD) at least three months after the loss of a loved one. It could therefore

Schut & Stroebe, 2005). The online CBT consists of eight weekly sessions that are tailored to this specific population. Following the Dutch guidelines for grief-specific CBT, central components of the

the story of the loss (and its circumstances) is discussed in detail and the participant is helped to confront stimuli that s/he tends to avoid. The rationale of exposure is described by given example

specific attention is paid to cognitions connected with responsibility/ guilt and fear, that may be elevated follow

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a person must be a family member, spouse or friend of a person who died (whether or not due to the coronavirus) during the COVID-19 pandemic (period March 2020 till current); - the death occurred at least three months earlier; - = 18 years of age; - report clinically relevant symptom-levels of PCBD, PTSD and/or MDD based on telephone interviews.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Participants will be excluded when they do not have access to the internet, do not master the Dutch language and/ or suffer from a psychotic disorder or are suicidal.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
PCBD symptoms will be assessed with the Traumatic Grief Inventory – Clinician-Administered (Lenferink et al., in prep.).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
PTSD symptoms will be assessed with the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (Blevins, Weathers, Davis, Witte, & Domino, 2015). MDD symptoms will be assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9; Kroenke, Spitzer, & Williams, 2001).	—

Contacts

Public ContactLyanne Reitsma

Utrecht University

l.reitsma@uu.nl06-22299573

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)