Trial document
This trial has been registered retrospectively.
DRKS00012443
Trial Description
Title
Humor training for people with mental disorders – a randomized controlled trial
Trial Acronym
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URL of the Trial
https://humortraining.jimdo.com/
Brief Summary in Lay Language
This study implements a seven-week humor training for people with mental disorders. In the humor training participants relearn their own sense of humor and laughter and especially learn how to use humor in stressful situations to better cope with them. The manual is based on the manual of Falkenberg, McGhee and Wild (2013) "Humorfähigkeit trainieren - Manual für die psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutische Praxis". People can participate in the study if they have one of the following mental disorders: depression mild to moderate pronounced, anxiety disorder or adjustment disorder.
Studys show that humor trainings help increase constructs like coping humor, cheerfulness or well-being whilst diminishing psychopathology like depression or anxiety. However, studies were conducted primarily with healthy participants. Studies, that deal with humor and mental disorders are scarce. Because of that, this study wants to find out if humor trainings for people with mental disorders are also as effective as for people without mental disorders.
Brief Summary in Scientific Language
The study deals with the promotion of coping humor and cheerfulness for people with mental disorders. In a seven-week humor training participants learn different strategies for using humor in everyday life and especially in stressful situations. The study has a randomized-controlled design (RCT) with an experimental group und a wait-list control group. The manual is based on the manual of Falkenberg, McGhee and Wild (2013) “Humorfähigkeit trainieren – Manual für die psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutische Praxis”. People can participate in the study if they have one of the following mental disorders: depression mild to moderate pronounced, anxiety disorder or adjustment disorder. Before the training a diagnostical interview is made to control for the inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Studies already show that humor trainings can help to increase cheerfulness and well-being and can also help to reduce depression and anxiety. However, studies were conducted primarily with healthy participants. Studies that deal with humor and mental disorders are scarce. Because of that, this study wants to find out if humor trainings for people with mental disorders are also as effective as for people without mental disorders or if there are any reasons that restrain the effectivity of the training.
Organizational Data
- DRKS00012443
- 2017/05/16
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- Approved
- EK-GZ:44/2016, Ethikkommission der Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg
Secondary IDs
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Health Condition or Problem studied
- F32.0 - Mild depressive episode
- F32.1 - Moderate depressive episode
- F33.0 - Recurrent depressive disorder, current episode mild
- F33.1 - Recurrent depressive disorder, current episode moderate
- F34.1 - Dysthymia
- F40 - Phobic anxiety disorders
- F42 - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- F43.2 - Adjustment disorders
Interventions/Observational Groups
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Experimental group:
Seven-weeks humor training. Each of the weekly sessions lasts 90 minutes. Every session deals one specifiic humor topic. In the sessions there are psychoeducational elements and role plays/exercises/plays to practice and deepen the learned topics. The experimental group is randmoized and receives the humor training right after the assignment to the group. -
Wait-list control group:
This group is also randomized and receives the humor training after the experimental group participated and evaluation measures have been completed. Evaluation meausres are filled in simultaneously to the experimental group: 1 week before the start of the experimental group's training, 1 week after the completion of the training and 1 month after the completion of the training. After follow-up measures are completed, the wait-list control group receives the humor training which is the same as the training the experimental group received.
Characteristics
- Interventional
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- Randomized controlled trial
- Open (masking not used)
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- Control group receives no treatment
- Treatment
- Parallel
- I-II
- N/A
Primary Outcome
Coping Humor Scale (CHS):
3 measurement points: Pre, post and follow-up (after 1 month) --> filled in online
State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory (STCI):
3 measurement points: Pre, post and follow-up (after 1 month) --> filled in online
Secondary Outcome
StateTrait-Anxiety-Inventory (STAI):
3 measurement points: Pre, post and follow-up (after 1 month) --> filled in online
WHO 5 Well-being-Index (WHO-5):
3 measurement points: Pre, post and follow-up (after 1 month) --> filled in online
Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale (CES-D):
3 measurement points: Pre, post and follow-up (after 1 month) --> filled in online
Gelotophobia questionnaire (GELOPH-15):
3 measurement points: Pre, post and follow-up (after 1 month) --> filled in online
Feedback questionnaire (self generated):
1 measurement point at post
Countries of Recruitment
- Austria
Locations of Recruitment
- other
Recruitment
- Actual
- 2017/03/01
- 50
- Monocenter trial
- National
Inclusion Criteria
- Both, male and female
- 18 Years
- 80 Years
Additional Inclusion Criteria
good German language skills, no cognitive deficits and diagnoses F32.0 + F32.1, F33.0 + 33.1, F34.1, F40, F42, F43.2
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria are:
-F20-29 Schizophrenia and schizoaffective/delusional disorders
-F30 manic episode
-F31 bipolar disorder
-F32.2/F32.2 severe depression with/without psychotic symptoms
-F33.2/F33.3 recurrent severe depression with/without psychotic symptoms
-F43.0/F43.1 acute stress reaction/ PTSD
-F44 dissociative disorders
-F50 eating disorders
-F60-69 personality disorders
-acute suicidality
-age <18 or >80
-cognitive deficits
-no German language skills
Addresses
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- Universität Salzburg
- Hellbrunner Straße 34
- 5020 Salzburg
- Austria
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- Universität Salzburg
- Ms. MSc Nektaria Tagalidou
- Hellbrunner Straße 34
- 5020 Salzburg
- Austria
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- nektaria.tagalidou at sbg.ac.at
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- Universität Salzburg
- Ms. MSc Nektaria Tagalidou
- Hellbrunner Straße 34
- 5020 Salzburg
- Austria
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- nektaria.tagalidou at sbg.ac.at
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Sources of Monetary or Material Support
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- Universität Salzburg
- Hellbrunner Straße 34
- 5020 Salzburg
- Austria
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Status
- Recruiting complete, follow-up continuing
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Trial Publications, Results and other Documents
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