Plain English Summary
Not provided at time of registration
Trial website
Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr W van Beek
ORCID ID
Contact details
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Alkmaar
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Netherlands
w.van.beek.hil@symfora.nl
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
NTR786
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
1. The level of suicide ideation is correlated with a low level of positive future expectancies.
2. Our future oriented training will help people to predict a more positive future.
3. And this will lead to less suicide ideation.
Ethics approval
Ethics approval received from the local medical ethics committee
Study design
Randomised open label active controlled parallel group trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Suicide
Intervention
We developed a manual-based group training, including elements from:
1. Motivational interviewing
2. Cognitive behavioural therapy
3. Problem solving treatment
4. Future thinking
5. Positive psychology
We compared three groups:
1. Treatment As Usual (TAU)
2. TAU and experimental training
3. Non-suicidal control group
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
1. Level of suicide ideations
2. Level of suicidal behaviour
Secondary outcome measures
1. Depression (BDI-II)
2. Quality of life (Outcome Questionnaire [OQ45])
3. Coping (Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations [CISS])
4. Problem solving (Social Problem Solving Inventory-Revised [SPSI-R])
5. Hopelessness (Beck Hopelessness Scale [BHS])
6. Worrying (Penn State Worry Questionnaire [PSWQ])
Overall trial start date
01/01/2007
Overall trial end date
01/01/2010
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Suicide ideation (Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition [BDI-II], question nine more than zero)
2. Lifetime affective disorder
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
225
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Primary psychotic disorder
2. Primary substance abuse disorder
3. Current manic state
4. Inability to read or write Dutch
5. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) less than 85
Recruitment start date
01/01/2007
Recruitment end date
01/01/2010
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Netherlands
Trial participating centre
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Alkmaar
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Netherlands
Sponsor information
Organisation
Symfora Group (Netherlands)
Sponsor details
Postbus 219
Hilversum
1200 AE
Netherlands
Sponsor type
Not defined
Website
Funders
Funder type
Research organisation
Funder name
The Open Ankh Foundation (Stichting De Open Ankh) (Netherlands)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2009 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19811638
Publication citations
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Results
van Beek W, Kerkhof A, Beekman A, Future oriented group training for suicidal patients: a randomized clinical trial., BMC Psychiatry, 2009, 9, 65, doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-65.