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CFT-focused Mental Health Intervention With Exposure Training for Youngsters

ConditionsConduct DisorderPsychopathic Personality Trait
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexMale
Age15-20
SponsorHelsinki University Central Hospital

About this trial

The aim of this study is to explore if individual CFT-based intervention with exposure training in virtual reality decreases conduct disorder symptoms and callous-unemoitonal traits , as well as increases subjective emotional welbeing among 15-to-20 year-old male prisoners and boys placed to state's residential schools. We will also study factors that may predict adherence to the intervention. These factors include mental well-being, motivation, and working alliance. In addition, we will evaluate the costs of the program.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Express conduct disorder psychopathology and psychopathic personality traits

Are placed to a prison or a state residential school for at least 9 months

Disqualifiers

Females

Non-Finninsh-speaking

Remaining in the institution facility less than 9 months

Intellectual dissability

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Psychopathy.comp and training in virtual reality (VR)

    Behavioral

    Psychopathy.comp is a CFT-based manualized program of 20 sessions a 60 min, on a weekly basis. During the CFT-intervention, partipants try out their new skills in a tailored VR setting (x5)

Treatment groups

144 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Youngsters who get CFT + VRActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Treatment as usualNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

The self-reported change in Youth Pysychopathic traits Inventory- short version (YPI-S) and in the factors of it

Measures both conduct prolems and psychopathic traits

Time frame
5 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Short Warwick-Edinburgh Wellbeing scale (SWEMWBS)

measures general psychosocial well-being

Time frame
5months
2

Difficulties in Emotion Regulating Scale-Short form (DERS-SF)

measures emotion regulation style

Time frame
5 months
3

WHO's quality of life questionnaire- Brief version (WHOQOL-BREF)

measures quality of life

Time frame
5 months
4

Self-Compassion Scale- Short Form (SCS-SF)

measures self-compassion

Time frame
5 months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Helsinki University Central Hospital

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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