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

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