To evaluate if emotion regulation group therapy skills training for adolescents and parents is an efficacious treatment when delivered as adjunctive to treatment as usual compared to a control group consisting of treatment as usual.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
119
The adjunctive emotion regulation skills training is delivered in a group format once a week during 7 weeks to adolescents and parents jointly together with treatment as usual
Treatment as usual at the child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic is delivered during 7 weeks
Region Östergötland BUP-kliniken
Linköping, Sweden
Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)
Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale measures difficulties with emotion regulation. It contains a total of 36 items that are rated on a Likert scale between 1-5. Total score ranges between 36-180 with higher scores indicating more difficulties with emotion regulation. The scale has 6 subscales: nonacceptance (ranging from 6-30); goals (ranging from 5-25); impulse (ranging from 6-30); awareness (ranging from 6-30); strategies (ranging from 8-40) and clarity (ranging from 5-25).
Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months
Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
Beck's Anxiety Inventory measures symptoms of anxiety with 21 items rated on a four-graded scale (0-3). Total scores range from 0-63. Higher scores indicate higher levels of anxiety.
Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months
Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, self-report version (MADRS-S).
Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale measures symptoms of depression. Its main purpose is to monitor the development of symptoms during treatment. The scale consists of 9 items, which are graded from zero to six. Total scores range from 0-54. Higher scores indicate higher level of depression symptoms.
Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months
Global Assessment Scale for Children (C-GAS)
The Global Assessment Scale for Children measures global functioning on a scale that ranges from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating higher global functioning.
Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months
Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life (BBQ)
Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life measures quality of Life in a total of 12 items (6 different areas of life). Satisfaction and how important the different areas of life are, are rated from 0-4. Total scores range from 0-96 with high scores indicating higher levels of quality of life.
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Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months
Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)
Toronto Alexithymia Scale measures alexithymia. It contains a total of 20 items with 3 subscales (difficulties describing feelings: 7 items ranging from 7-35, difficulties identifying feelings: 5 items ranging from 5-25 and externally oriented thinking: 8 items ranging from 8-40). Total scores range from 20-100 with higher scores indicating higher levels of alexithymia.
Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months
Levels of Emotional Awareness (LEAS-C)
Measures awareness of emotions, i.e., the ability to identify and describe own and others' emotions. The children's version used in the present study consists of 12 situations, in which the child is asked to describe which emotions he/she and another person would experience in a given situation. Answers are rated by an external rater on a five-grade scale divided into the three subscales: self, other and total.
Time frame: Change from baseline at 7 weeks and at 3 months