Competitive Memory training in patients with auditory verbal hallucinations: a randomized con-trolled trial.

Competitive Memory training in patients with auditory verbal hallucinations: a randomized con-trolled trial. - COMET

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON31865

Enrollment

128

Registered

2007-12-14

Start date

2008-04-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-05-13

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Conditions

auditory verbal hallucinations hearing voices

Interventions

The experimental group will have 9 sessions of competitive memory trai ning

the control group is a waiting list

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients suffering from persistent auditory verbal hallucinations in the age 18 to 65. Three particular items of the PSYRATS (Haddock et al. 1999) will be used to screen patients. These items measure frequency of voices (item 1) intensity of distress (item 9) and disturbance of daily functioning (item 10). Patients with results higher than 3 will be included. We defined the hallucinations *persistent* if they still cause distress despite the administration of two different types of antipsychotic medication.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: severe abuse of substances, insufficient knowledge and practice of Dutch language.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Primary study parameters/outcome of the study: PSYRATS / AHRS (voices)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
SCRS (social comparison rating scale) BDI (depression) BAI (anxiety) PUL (self-efficacy) BCIS (insight) PSc (power differential scale) SERS (self esteem) MCQ30 (metacognitions) A motivational inventory A neuropsychological test measuring memory bias Emotional stroop (attentional bias)	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)