An interventional study of Computer-based stress management program and Stress management in face-to-face in Adjustment Disorders and Psychological Stress, sponsored by University Hospital, Lille. Completed at 3 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-22.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Lille · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of a 5-week standardized cognitive behavioral treatment of stress management conducted via e-learning or face-to-face on patients responding to the diagnosis of adjustment disorder with anxiety (ADA) according to the DSM- 5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition) criteria .
The program includes 5 weekly sessions that the patient follows. It is based on standard CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) principles and includes five modules (information about stress and stress reaction and assessment; deep respiration and relaxation techniques; cognitive re-structuration; mindfulness and acceptation; behavioral skills as solving problem, time management, healthy behaviors, problem solving and emotion regulation …).
63 studies on the registry are indexed under Adjustment Disorders; 13 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 120 is above the median of 100 across 52 interventional studies indexed under Adjustment Disorders.
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The American Psychiatric Association’s manual of mental health diagnoses. DSM-5 (2013, revised as DSM-5-TR in 2022) replaced DSM-IV, and some studies still name the older edition. “Meets DSM criteria for …” means diagnosed by that edition’s diagnostic criteria, usually by a clinician in an interview.
DSM diagnostic criteria
The American Psychiatric Association’s manual of mental health diagnoses. DSM-5 (2013, revised as DSM-5-TR in 2022) replaced DSM-IV, and some studies still name the older edition. “Meets DSM criteria for …” means diagnosed by that edition’s diagnostic criteria, usually by a clinician in an interview.
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Immediate e-learning condition with minimal contact (n =40),
Behavioral: Computer-based stress management program
Immediate treatment in face - to- face (n = 40)
Behavioral: Stress management in face-to-face
Waiting list (n=40)
Other: Waiting list
The program includes 5 one hour weekly sessions that patient follow from a web site accessible from a computer in our unit. He benefits from a minimal contact with a medical member of staff before and after every session. The duration of each session is about one hour. To avoid internet connexion problem between session it is supplied to the patient, from the first session an USB key (Universal Serial Bus) containing videos, audio files, self help book, portfolio in the form of e-guide, log book with the program of the exercises to be realized between two session of the five sessions program. The patient is encouraged to practice a twenty-minutes daily exercises five or six days per week.
Also known as: Seren@ctif
The program includes 5 forty-five minutes weekly session with a therapist (psychologist graduate of a master of cognitive and emotional therapy with a minimal of one year of practice in CBT and CBSM (Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management ). Information, exercises and homework assignments are delivered by the therapist without self help support.
The patients are followed by their General Practitioners without change in treatment .
Score of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S),
self-administered questionnaire of 20 items side on 4 levels from 'not at all' to one side "many" side 4 (total score of 20-80). It measures an intensity of more anxiety and is not related to an anxiety disorder.
Time frame: Between baseline and 2 month of use
Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HAD),
The scale allows to detect anxiety and depression using 14 items rated from 0-3.
Time frame: at 2 months, at 6 months
The Penn-State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ),
Self-Assessment Questionnaire consisting of 16 items, measuring the general tendency to worry.
Time frame: at 2 months, at 6 months
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Two dimensions emerge from this scale: the overflow and perceived self-efficacy.
Time frame: at 2 months, at 6 months
Visual Analogue Scale for stress (VAS-stress)
Time frame: at 2 months, at 6 months
The Beck depression inventory (BDI-21)
Self-assessment questionnaire measuring the severity of depression
Time frame: at 2 months, at 6 months
Plan to share: No
Ran from Sep 2015 to primary completion in Jun 2018, 33 months.
Of 25 interventional studies with no phase under Adjustment Disorders, half reached primary completion within 31 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 13 and three quarters within 38. This study's 33 months is close to that.
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