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Evaluation of the benefit of a new psychotherapy applied to students at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in controlling Anxiety and Depression Symptoms through specific questionnaires for anxiety and depression and laboratory tests

Assessment of the efficacy of a novel brief psychotherapy technique applied to students at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in controlling Anxious and Depressive Symptoms through specific questionnaires and biomarkers

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-10p45rdg
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2024-11-06
Start date
2024-12-15
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

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

Conditions

Anxiety disorders

Interventions

This is a two-arm, blinded, randomized controlled clinical study. Experimental group: 78 volunteers with anxious or depressive symptoms will undergo Behavioral Analysis Therapy of Feelings. Control gr

Sponsors

Empresa Brasileira de Servicios Hospitalares - EBSERH
Lead Sponsor
Empresa Brasileira de Servicios Hospitalares - EBSERH
Collaborator

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Students from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte attending the outpatient clinic in the Mental Health Unit within the Clinical Medicine Department, Psychiatry Division, at the Onofre Lopes University Hospital; If on antipsychotics, the use must be stable, with no changes in psychotropic medications in the past 6 weeks; both sexes will be included without age limit

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Drug use or substance dependence; smokers; alcohol consumption; recent physical exercise within the past 48 hours; sleep of less than 7 hours the night before sample collection; imminent risk of suicide; schizophrenia; psychotic symptoms; bipolar disorder; for women use of oral contraceptives or pregnancy

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Reduction of anxious and depressive symptoms in students at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte after the application of Behavioral Analysis Therapy of Feelings, after evaluating the clinical improvement in the anxiety and depression scales, and through measuring the level of biomarkers in an evolutionary manner

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
No secondary outcomes are expected

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactManoel Victor Marques

Hospital Universitário Onofre Lopes da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - HUOL/UFRN

manoelvicfm@gmail.com+55 (84) 33425003

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP)