Clinical trial NCT05519748: Effectiveness of an Online Psychoeducation Program for Improving Coping in People With a High Level of Dissociative Symptoms: A Pilot Randomized Waitlist-controlled Trial
Official title: Effectiveness of an Online Psychoeducation Program for Improving Coping in People With a High Level of Dissociative Symptoms: A Pilot Randomized Waitlist-controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Dissociation
Lead sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
First posted: 2022-08-29
Enrollment: 101
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 64
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Subject Population Our study's target population is people with pathological dissociation in the community.

Research Design A pilot randomized waitlist-controlled trial will investigate the effects of an online psychoeducation program on coping, symptom management, and self-efficacy of people with pathological dissociation immediately (posttest-1) and 2-month (posttest-2) post-intervention. Supplementary semi-structured interviews will be conducted for process evaluation. The analysis and reporting of the trial will strictly follow the CONSORT guidelines.

Instrument The primary outcome of our study is the coping ability of individuals with pathological dissociation, which will be assessed by the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory (Brief-COPE). The secondary outcome measures are dissociative symptoms, emotional regulation, and self-efficacy, which would be assessed by the Dissociative Experiences Scale-Taxon (DES-T), the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) accordingly.

Procedure The online psychoeducation program is developed based on an integrative theoretical framework that integrates the Stress and Coping model, Cognitive-Behavioural Theory, Bandura's self-efﬁcacy theory, and findings of our previous feasibility studies on this psychoeducational program. Participants will be recruited via posting on social media and online forums. A 16-session online psychoeducation program will be delivered to the participants in eight weeks.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* agree to give informed consent and participate
* aged 18 or above
* self-reported symptoms or experiences of pathological dissociation
* screened positive on the Chinese version of the DES-T (i.e., DES-T score 20 or above) at a baseline screening
* able to understand and communicate in Chinese-Cantonese
* have access to the internet.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Individuals who have a reading disorder, cognitive impairment, dementia, or intellectual disabilities
* Individuals who are participating in any research studies
* Individuals who had participated in our previous feasibility study of the same intervention

Primary outcomes:
measure: Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory (Brief-COPE)
timeFrame: Immediately and two months after completion of the intervention in the experimental group
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Dissociative Experiences Scale-Taxon (DES-T)
timeFrame: Immediately and two months after completion of the intervention in the experimental group
Other outcomes:
measure: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
timeFrame: Immediately and two months after completion of the intervention in the experimental group
measure: General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES)
timeFrame: Immediately and two months after completion of the intervention in the experimental group
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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