Psychotherapy Expectations and Distress Among Mental Health Patients and Their Therapists.
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Expectancy, Distress, Psychological. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Israel
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
The Associations Between Psychotherapy Expectations and Distress Among Adults Hospitalized in Psychiatric Departments or Treated in the Ambulatory/Community Clinics and Their Therapists.
Overview
Patients will be recruited from the units of Shalvata MHC: closed and open hospitalization unit, and ambulatory units of Shalvata MHC community clinic. Their therapists will be recruited as well. There will be 4 timepoints measurement: baseline, second week, fourth week and after eight weeks (or discharge). Patients will be addressed through the therapeutic staff and the research team will contact them after a conceptually agreement to participate. A member of the research staff will schedule a meeting explaining the research thoroughly and ask the patient/therapist to sign an informed consent. After signing an informed consent, patients will complete several questionnaires at several time points, whereas their therapists will complete measures as well. All scales will be filled using the Qualtrics platform. In hospitalization unit questionnaires will be filled with the aid of the research coordinator, and in the facilities of Shalvata MHC, in face-to-face interaction. During the face-to-face interaction, in case the patient will report suicidal thoughts or plan to a member of the research staff, the therapeutic staff will be notified immediately. patients at community clinics will fill the first measurement in face-to-face interaction and the rest of the questionnaires independently recieveg a link to their mobile phone.
Primary outcome measures
- Symptom Checklist (SCL-10R) [Time frame: From enrollment, 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 8 weeks after enrolment]
- The Expectations of Active Processes in Psychotherapy Scale (EAPPS) [Time frame: At enrollment and 8 weeks after enrolment]
- Outcome expectations (an item from Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ) [Time frame: From enrollment, 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 8 weeks after enrollment]
- The Clinical Global Impressions Scale (CGI). [Time frame: From enrollment, 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 8 weeks after enrollment]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- The Multitheoretical List of Therapeutic Interventions (MULTI). [Time frame: 2 weeks and 4 weeks after enrollment]
- The Stanford Expectations of Treatment Scale (SETS) [Time frame: At enrollment and 6 weeks after enrollment]
- Existential Isolation Scale (EIS) [Time frame: At enrollment and 8 weeks after enrollment]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Hebrew mother tongue speakers
- Being treated at Shalvata MHC.
Exclusion criteria
- Inability to read or comprehend Hebrew due to any reason.
- Agitative patients
- Acute suicidal patients
- Patients in unstable psychotic state
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Ecologic or community
Study locations
Israel · 1 center
- Shalvata Mental Health Center — Israel
Publications
- Younger J, Gandhi V, Hubbard E, Mackey S. Development of the Stanford Expectations of Treatment Scale (SETS): a tool for measuring patient outcome expectancy in clinical trials. Clin Trials. 2012 Dec;9(6):767-76. doi: 10.1177/1740774512465064. Epub 2012 Nov 20. PMID 23169874
- McCarthy KS, Barber JP. The Multitheoretical List of Therapeutic Interventions (MULTI): initial report. Psychother Res. 2009 Jan;19(1):96-113. doi: 10.1080/10503300802524343. PMID 19065285
- Pinel, E. C., Long, A. E., Murdoch, E. Q., & Helm, P. (2017). A prisoner of one's own mind: Identifying and understanding existential isolation. Personality and Individual Differences, 105, 54-63.
- Solomonov N, McCarthy KS, Gorman BS, Barber JP. The Multitheoretical List of Therapeutic Interventions - 30 items (MULTI-30). Psychother Res. 2019 Jul;29(5):565-580. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2017.1422216. Epub 2018 Jan 16. PMID 29336228
- Rosen CS, Drescher KD, Moos RH, Finney JW, Murphy RT, Gusman F. Six- and ten-item indexes of psychological distress based on the Symptom Checklist-90. Assessment. 2000 Jun;7(2):103-11. doi: 10.1177/107319110000700201. PMID 10868247
- Derogatis LR, Lipman RS, Covi L. SCL-90: an outpatient psychiatric rating scale--preliminary report. Psychopharmacol Bull. 1973 Jan;9(1):13-28. No abstract available. PMID 4682398
- Coyne AE, Constantino MJ, Boswell JF, Gaines AN, Kraus DR. Therapist-Level Moderators of Patient-Therapist Match Effectiveness in Community Psychotherapy. Adm Policy Ment Health. 2024 Sep;51(5):738-752. doi: 10.1007/s10488-024-01360-8. Epub 2024 Apr 2. PMID 38565810
- Constantino MJ, Coyne AE, McVicar EL, Ametrano RM. The relative association between individual difference variables and general psychotherapy outcome expectation in socially anxious individuals. Psychother Res. 2017 Sep;27(5):583-594. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2016.1138336. Epub 2016 Feb 11. PMID 26866269
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06908343 · 0012-22 SHA