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Status unknownNCT04030819Updated Jul 30, 2019

Effectiveness of a Schema Therapy on Anxiety in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

An interventional study of schema therapy in Anxiety, sponsored by Paris Nanterre University. Status unknown at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-07-30.

Sponsored by Paris Nanterre University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jul 2019), so the status shown — last known as Active, not recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 6 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Dec 2018, registered Jul 2019).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
106
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

It is a multicentric randomized and controlled study comparing a Scheme therapy program versus local practice in RRMS patients with anxiety. Patients will assist to twenty once-weekly group sessions with a 6-month follow up after the end of the programme. The main criteria is the impact of schema therapy on anxiety evaluated by the questionnaires at the end of the program and at the end of the 6-month follow-up.

Read the detailed description

A parallel arm randomized controlled trial comparing a group receiving Scheme Therapy plus current usual practice versus a group receiving current local practice only. The trial will take place in KASHANI Hospital (in Isfahan).Recruitment of the participants will be identified and recruited by the neurologists of the hospitals who take part in the programme, when they come for a medical examination.

After giving their informed consent, the patients will be entered onto the trial database and randomized to either the schema therapy or control using software allocated The intervention is the schema therapy focuses on the management of anxiety and is based on self-efficacy, self-management . It consists of 20 once-weekly sessions of 90 minutes (with a 15 Min break), with homework activities between the sessions. It is designed for groups of 8 people and will be delivered by two psychologists. The programme is standardized: Power Points presentations support each session and a detailed therapist manual and companion patient workbook accompany the programme.

For the ST group an evaluation will be administered pretest and post-test six months after the end of the schema therapy programme and at the same times for those in the control group. Socio-demographic and medical data, age, sex, level of education, marital status, number of children and professional status; date of diagnosis, disease type, level of disability (EDSS, Kurtzke, 1983) and information on relapses and treatments, are evaluated. The main criteria is the impact of schema therapy on anxiety evaluated by the BAI (beck anxiety inventory ) and level of cortisol at 6 month after the start program . Secondary criteria are: impact on the psychological dimensions assessed by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), intensity of fatigue assessed by Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), sleep quality evaluated by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI) depression by BDI (beck depression inventory ) and quality of life evaluated by (Multiple sclerosis impact scale) MSIS29.

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Conditions studied

  • Anxiety

Keywords

  • anxiety
  • multiple sclerosis
  • schema therapy
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In context

Multiple Sclerosis

3,460 studies on the registry are indexed under Multiple Sclerosis; 661 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 106 is above the median of 50 across 2,342 interventional studies indexed under Multiple Sclerosis.

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Lead sponsor

Paris Nanterre University is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • subject has relapsing remitting MS
  • anxiety (score >26 at the BAI scale)
  • history of psychotic disorders
  • history of cognitive deficiency
  • use anti-depressant in the past 3 months
  • history of relapse in the past 3 month
  • expanded Disability Status Scale score less than 6
  • ability reading and writing Persian
  • Non hospitalized

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • history of psychotic disorders
  • history of cognitive deficiency
  • use anti-depressant in the past 3 months
  • history of relapse in the past 3 month
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
106 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • No intervention
    control group

    no intervention

  • Experimental
    experimental group

    schema therapy

    Behavioral: schema therapy

Interventions

  • Behavioralschema therapy

    The intervention is the schema therapy focuses on the management of anxiety and is based on self-efficacy, self-management . It consists of 20 once-weekly sessions of 90 minutes (with a 15 Min break), with homework activities between the sessions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. changes Anxiety in patient with MS,Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

    Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI),self-reported questionnaire of anxiety,.21-question multiple- choice each answer being scored on a scale value of 0 (not at all) to 3 (severely),Higher total scores indicate more severe anxiety symptoms . score between 0-63

    Time frame: Change measures in 0,6,12 month

  2. changes in level of cortisol

    cortisol measure by Immunoassay by cortisol saliva ELISA, DiaMetra ( kit),adult morning peak :3-10 ,higher values represent more anxiety

    Time frame: Change measures in 0,6,12 month

Secondary outcomes

  1. changes in depression,Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

    Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)- self report questionnaires,21-question multiple-choice,each answer being scored on a scale value of 0 (not at all) to 3 (severely),total scores indicate more severe depression symptoms . score between 0-63

    Time frame: Change measures in 0,6,12 month

  2. changes quality of life.Multiple sclerosis impact scale - 29 items(MSIS29)

    Multiple sclerosis impact scale - 29 items.self -reported questionnaires (MSIS29):29-item self-report measure with 20 items associated with a physical scale and 9 items with a psychological scale,Each of the two scales are scored by summing the responses across items, then converting to a 0-100 scale where 100 indicates greater impact of disease on daily function (worse health).

    Time frame: Change measures in 0,6,12 month

  3. changes in quality of sleep.Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

    Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) : self-report questionnaire that assesses sleep quality over a 1-month time intervalself-report questionnaire that assesses sleep quality over a 1-month time interval. The measure consists of 19 individual items,Each item is weighted on a 0-3 interval scale The global PSQI score is then calculated by totaling the seven component scores, providing an overall score ranging from 0 to 21, where lower scores denote a healthier sleep quality..

    Time frame: Change measures in 0,6,12 month

  4. changes in fatigue.Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS)

    Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). self -reported questionnaires The FSS questionnaire contains nine statements that attempt to explore severity of fatigue symptoms.each item being scored on a scale value of 1 to 7. score between 9-63.higher the score indicate greater fatigue

    Time frame: Change measures in 0,6,12 month

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Study locations

1 site
  • university Paris Nanterre
    Paris, 75, France
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 30, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04030819
Lead sponsor
Paris Nanterre University
Collaborators
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Responsible party
Azam Mansourzadeh (PHD student of university Nanterre-clinical researcher in university ISFAHAN, Paris Nanterre University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 24, 2019
Start date
Dec 20, 2018
Primary completion
Jun 18, 2019
Completion
Dec 15, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 30, 2019

Study contacts

Marie claire GAY, full prof
study director · university paris Nanterre
vahid shaygannejad, professor
study director · Isfahan university of medical science
AZAM Mansourzadeh
principal investigator · university paris Nanterre

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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