Clinical trial NCT05572372: Effects of an ACT-based Psychological Treatment in Patients With Hypersexuality
Official title: Psychological Treatment of Hypersexuality: a Clinical Trial With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Hypersexuality
Lead sponsor: Universidad Europea de Madrid
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: apoyopositivo.org
First posted: 2022-10-07
Enrollment: 12
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Investigation of the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the psychological treatment of hypersexuality.

Detailed description: After being informed about the study, all patients giving written informed consent will be assessed to determine eligibility for study entry.

Patients who meet eligibility requirements will receive psychological intervention consisting in an 8-session individual on line-delivered ACT-based treatment.

The participants will be assessed through self-report instruments before and after treatment and at 3 months follow-up.

The clinical trial will not include a control group.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* older than 18 years-old
* Spanish speaking
* having had a sexual relationship in the last year
* significant score on the HBI Inventory (of 53 or more)
* at least 6 months of problematic pornography use or sexual practices
* clinically significant discomfort related to sexual practices
* degree of interference in his/her life of sexual practices greater than or equal to 5 out of 10
* at least one failure in his attempts to change his sexual life
* desire to improve/reduce excessive sexual behaviour

Exclusion Criteria:

* practicing meditation at least once a week in the last three months
* receiving psychological or psychopharmacological treatment
* intellectual disability
* substance dependence (use not associated with sex)
* personality disorder or other serious or chronic mental disorder diagnosed

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (HBI)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline Hypersexuality at 5 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline psychological inflexibilty at 5 months
measure: Change in Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline cognitive fusion at 5 months
measure: Change in Scale of Body Connection (SBC)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline body awareness at 5 months
measure: Change in Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline mindufullness skills at 5 months
measure: Change in The New Sexual Satisfaction Scale-short form (NSSS-S)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline sexual satisfaction at 5 months
measure: Change in Intensity of cravings subjective scale
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 5 months
measure: Change in Interference of cravings subjective scale
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 5 months
measure: Change in Time spent planning or practicing sex per week
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 5 months
measure: Change in number of sexual encounters per week
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 5 months
measure: Change in Frequency of chemsex encounters per week
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 5 months
measure: Change in number of different sexual partners per week
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 5 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Villaviciosa de Odón
country: Spain
facility: Universidad Europea de Madrid
state: Madrid
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidad Europea de Madrid
name: Francisco Montesinos, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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