Effectiveness of Acceptance Commitment Therapy or Micro Breaks in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
- NCT ID
- NCT05168124
- Registry status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Not specified in the registry data
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Sponsor
- Sarah Schiebler
Overview
ClinicalTrials.gov lists this study as Recruiting.
Enrollment: 90 participants (Estimated).
What is being studied
No interventions are listed in the registry data.
Who may be eligible
- Ages
- Not specified in the registry data
- Sex
- Not specified in the registry data
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- No
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the following eligibility criteria.
Inclusion Criteria:
* Diagnosis for CFS/ME
* Psychiatric clinical stability in the past 3 months:
* No diagnostic change to other categories of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10)
* No psychiatric inpatient treatments
* No psychiatric emergency treatments
* No suicide attempts
* Possession of internet access
* Sufficient skills to use electronic devices
* The willingness to engage in the described therapeutic procedures or interventions (ACT, MBEL)
Exclusion Criteria:
* Insufficient knowledge of German
* Severe psychiatric disorders (e.g. personality and posttraumatic stress disorders, dissociative and psychotic disorders, intelligence reduction, untreated attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and acute suicidal tendencies
* Untreated or severe internal medicine disorders e.g., thyroid dysfunction, central and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (i.e., apnea-hypopnea index \>15 and/or "high-risk group for obstructive sleep apnea" according to the Berlin Questionnaire)
* Cardiovascular disease such as chronic heart failure
* Severe or untreated neurological diseases (e.g. Parkinson's disease, dementia, restless legs syndrome, narcolepsy)
* Alcohol and drug dependence
* Initiation of psychopharmacotherapy at a dosage provided for guideline-appropriate treatment of a mental disorder according to the Drug Compendium in the past 3 months
* Start of other psychotherapy procedures in the last 3 months
* Other parallel therapy methods (e.g. acupuncture, qigong, osteopathy)
* Somatic (sleep-disrupting) treatments, cortisone treatment, or radio-/chemotherapy in the last 6 months
Study locations
1 study location is listed.
Site recruitment status is not specified in the registry data for these locations.
Countries: Switzerland
Sample of listed locations
- University Hospital of Zurich — Zurich, 8091, Switzerland — Site recruitment status not specified in the registry data
Study details
- Start date
- August 8, 2023
- Primary completion date
- December 1, 2025
- First posted
- December 23, 2021
Source and update information
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- NCT ID
- NCT05168124
- Registry last updated
- December 16, 2024
- QualifiedStudies registry data refreshed
- September 21, 2026
View NCT05168124 on ClinicalTrials.gov
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