Clinical trial NCT05557890: System Constellations in Virtual Reality (VR)
Official title: Efficacy and Experience of System Constellations in Virtual Reality (VR): A Randomized Control Feasibility Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychological and Systems Functioning
Keywords: Systems Constellation
Virtual Reality (VR)
Feasibility Study
Lead sponsor: University of Witten/Herdecke
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: FH Münster University of Applied Sciences
name: The Witten Institute For Family Business
First posted: 2022-09-28
Enrollment: 53
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of system constellations in Virtual Reality (VR) in a monocentric, single-masked randomized controlled trial.

The method of system constellations refers to an approach which integrates ideas from organizational and family systems counseling with elements from psychodrama. The constellations are conducted in a group based VR-seminar, each VR-seminar lasting two to three days.

Based on the model of a general mental health, the effects of system constellations in VR on psychological and systems functioning are explored.

It is predicted that participation in a system constellation VR-seminar changes the level of psychological and systems functioning at 4 months.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* agreement to participate in a 2 to 3-day system constellations VR-seminar
* agreement to be randomized into treatment group or control group (waiting condition)
* agreement not to participate in another system constellation VR-seminar or seminar until completion of study

Exclusion Criteria:

* acute suicidal tendency
* acute psychotic episode
* acute drug or alcohol intoxication

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline EB-45 Score within 4 months
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 weeks after treatment, 4 months after treatment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Experience in Social Systems Questionnaire (EXIS)
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 weeks after treatment, 4 months after treatment
measure: Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Treatment Progress (FEP-2)
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 weeks after treatment, 4 months after treatment
measure: Bern Inventory of Psychotherapy Goals (BIT-C)
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 weeks after treatment, 4 months after treatment
measure: Incongruence Questionnaire (K-INK)
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 weeks after treatment, 4 months after treatment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Witten
country: Germany
facility: Witten/Herdecke University
state: North Rhine-Westphalia
Study officials:
References:
citation: Hunger C, Bornhauser A, Link L, Schweitzer J, Weinhold J. Improving experience in personal social systems through family constellation seminars: results of a randomized controlled trial. Fam Process. 2014 Jun;53(2):288-306. doi: 10.1111/famp.12051. Epub 2013 Nov 19.
citation: Hunger C, Weinhold J, Bornhauser A, Link L, Schweitzer J. Mid- and long-term effects of family constellation seminars in a general population sample: 8- and 12-month follow-up. Fam Process. 2015 Jun;54(2):344-58. doi: 10.1111/famp.12102. Epub 2014 Sep 29.
citation: Weinhold J, Hunger C, Bornhauser A, Link L, Rochon J, Wild B, Schweitzer J. Family constellation seminars improve psychological functioning in a general population sample: results of a randomized controlled trial. J Couns Psychol. 2013 Oct;60(4):601-9. doi: 10.1037/a0033539. Epub 2013 Aug 19.
citation: Hunger C, Bornhauser A, Link L, Geigges J, Voss A, Weinhold J, Schweitzer J. The Experience in Personal Social Systems Questionnaire (EXIS.pers): Development and Psychometric Properties. Fam Process. 2017 Mar;56(1):154-170. doi: 10.1111/famp.12205. Epub 2016 Feb 8.
citation: Hunger, C. (2020). Family constellations as single intervention within the group setting in chronic psychosocial conflicts: short-, medium-, and long-term efficacy.Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 68(4), 263-273.