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Efficacy of Short–Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy on Love Trauma Syndrome

Protocol summary

Summary
Introduction: this study is conducted to investigating the efficacy of short term dynamic psychotherapy on Love Trauma Syndrome (LTS) on female students. LTS is included a set of signs and symptoms which appears after a collapse in a love relationship and disrupt person's functions intensively, extensively and sometimes becomeس a longstanding problem in person's life. Rechard Rosse (1990) introdued love taruma syndrome for the first time. Method: This project is a kind of multiple – baseline experimental single case study (Kazdin, 1992). Sample includes five cases and they are selected based on purposeful sampling. This intervention is conducted based on McCullough's manual for short term dynamic psychotherapy. McCullough's short term dynamic psychotherapy was prepared for restructuring defences, affects and attachments (McCullough. 1997). In general, this study have three phases. The first phase is baseline evaluation, the second phase is intervention and the third phase is two months of follow up. Intervention includes 20 weekly therapeutic sessions (each session 45 minutes) based on the manual. Instruments in this research are Love Trauma Inventory (LTI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), Global Assessment Function(GAF) of DSM-IV and Millon Personality Inventory (MCMI-II). Two methods, clinical significance and recovery percent formula are used for data analysis. When individual's scores in target problems decreased to the normal level, it concluded that results clinically are significant. In other words, individual's scores in inventories must decrease below the cut-off point to be consider clinically significant. Recovery percent formula is one of the methods to assess client's progress in decreasing target problems. More than 50% recovery in results is considered clinically significant (kazdin, 1992). Key words: love trauma syndrome, short term dynamic psychotherapy.

General information

Acronym
STDP On LTS
IRCT registration information
IRCT registration number: IRCT138903063996N2
Registration date: 2010-06-16, 1389/03/26
Registration timing: retrospective

Last update:
Update count: 0
Registration date
2010-06-16, 1389/03/26
Registrant information
Name
Mahmood Dehghani
Name of organization / entity
Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences
Country
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Phone
+98 21 2290 5491
Email address
abediana@ut.ac.ir
Recruitment status
Recruitment complete
Funding source
Investigator
Expected recruitment start date
2009-05-15, 1388/02/25
Expected recruitment end date
2009-07-16, 1388/04/25
Actual recruitment start date
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Actual recruitment end date
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Trial completion date
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Scientific title
Efficacy of Short–Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy on Love Trauma Syndrome
Public title
Efficacy of Short–Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy on Love Trauma Syndrome
Purpose
Treatment
Inclusion/Exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria were: 1) 20 – 30 years old; 2) no intercourse; 3) at least six months lasting relationship; 4) no dyadic agreement on terminating relationship; 5) the goal of relationship was marriage; 6) at least three months lasting from the termination; 7) Global assessment function scale (GAF) scores between 50 – 61 and 8) no medication or any form of therapy. Exclusion criteria were: 1) serious clinical syndromes or personality disorders (such as psychosis, Bipolar disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder) and 2) serious suicidal ideation or suicidal plan.
Age
From 20 years old to 30 years old
Gender
Female
Phase
2
Groups that have been masked
No information
Sample size
Target sample size: 5
Randomization (investigator's opinion)
N/A
Randomization description
Blinding (investigator's opinion)
Not blinded
Blinding description
Placebo
Not used
Assignment
Single
Other design features
This project is a kind of multiple – baseline experimental single case study

Secondary Ids

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Ethics committees

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Ethics committee
Name of ethics committee
Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences
Street address
Shahid Mansoori Alley, Niayesh St., Sattarkhan Ave., Tehran, Iran
City
Tehran
Postal code
Approval date
2009-05-13, 1388/02/23
Ethics committee reference number
A/125

Health conditions studied

1

Description of health condition studied
Love Trauma Syndrome
ICD-10 code
ICD-10 code description

Primary outcomes

1

Description
Love Trauma Inventory Score
Timepoint
4 weeks and 2 weeks before intervetion., 1th session, 3th session, 5th session, 10th session, 15th session, 20th session of intervention., one and two months after intervention
Method of measurement
Love Trauma Inventory

2

Description
Beck Depression Inventory Score
Timepoint
one month before internetion, 1th session, 10th session and 20th session of intervention, two month after intervention.
Method of measurement
Beck Depression Inventory

Secondary outcomes

1

Description
Global assessment function scale score (GAF) of DSM-IV
Timepoint
one month before interventin, 1th session and 20th session of intervention, two month after intervention
Method of measurement
Global assessment function scale(GAF) of DSM-IV

Intervention groups

1

Description
This project is a kind of multiple – baseline experimental single case study (Kazdin, 1992). Sample includes five cases and they are selected based on purposeful sampling. This intervention is conducted based on McCullough's manual for short term dynamic psychotherapy. McCullough's short term dynamic psychotherapy was prepared for restructuring defenses, affects and attachments (McCullough. 1997). In general, this study includes three stages, the first stage is baseline evaluation, the second is intervention and the third is two months follow up. Intervention includes 20 weekly therapeutic sessions (each seseion 45 minutes) based on the manual. this intervention takes place in five months.
Category
Treatment - Other

Recruitment centers

1

Recruitment center
Name of recruitment center
Honar University Counseling Center
Full name of responsible person
Mrs Amiri
Street address
Shahid Balavar Alley, Enqlab Ave
City
Tehran

2

Recruitment center
Name of recruitment center
Poli technique University Counseling Center
Full name of responsible person
Mrs Biglari
Street address
Rasht Alley, Valiyeh Asr Ave
City
Tehran

Sponsors / Funding sources

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Sponsor
Name of organization / entity
Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Mahmood Dehghani (investigator)
Street address
Deputy of Research. Central Building. Iran University of Medical Sciences, Hemmat highway, Tehran, Iran
City
Tehran
Grant name
Grant code / Reference number
Is the source of funding the same sponsor organization/entity?
Yes
Title of funding source
Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences
Proportion provided by this source
100
Public or private sector
empty
Domestic or foreign origin
empty
Category of foreign source of funding
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Country of origin
Type of organization providing the funding
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Person responsible for general inquiries

Contact
Name of organization / entity
Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Full name of responsible person
Mahmood Dehghani
Position
PhD.student of Clinical Psychology
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
Shahid Mansoori Alley, Niayesh St., Sattarkhan Ave., Tehran, Iran
City
Tehran
Postal code
Phone
+98 21 6655 1575
Fax
Email
mdehghani2004@gmail.com
Web page address

Person responsible for scientific inquiries

Contact
Name of organization / entity
Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Full name of responsible person
Mahmood Dehghani
Position
PhD.student of Clinical Psychology
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
Shahid Mansoori Alley, Niayesh St., Sattarkhan Ave., Tehran, Iran
City
Tehran
Postal code
Phone
+98 21 6655 1575
Fax
Email
mdehghani2004@gmail.com
Web page address

Person responsible for updating data

Contact
Name of organization / entity
Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Full name of responsible person
Mahmood Dehghani
Position
PhD.student of Clinical Psychology
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
Shahid Mansoori Alley, Niayesh St., Sattarkhan Ave., Tehran, Iran
City
Tehran
Postal code
Phone
+98 21 6655 1575
Fax
Email
mdehghani2004@gmail.com
Web page address

Sharing plan

Deidentified Individual Participant Data Set (IPD)
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Study Protocol
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Statistical Analysis Plan
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Informed Consent Form
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Clinical Study Report
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Analytic Code
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Data Dictionary
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