Targeting Components of Distress Tolerance for Emotional Distress
This study is looking at different ways to help people manage upsetting emotions, also known as distress intolerance. Researchers want to understand which approaches are most effective for improving how you handle emotions and reducing symptoms of mental health problems. The study will test brief psychotherapy sessions focused on increasing your belief that you *can* withstand distress (Self-Efficacy) or increasing your willingness to engage with distress (Willingness). You might also receive psychoeducation about emotions. To join, you need to be at least 18, fluent in English, use an Android or iPhone, and have certain scores on surveys for depression, anxiety, stress, and distress intolerance. The study aims to enroll 240 participants.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study with an unclear status, planning to enroll 240 participants. It will test different behavioral interventions.
- What's involved
- You will participate in brief skills-based psychotherapy sessions. You will also complete surveys at baseline, weekly for three weeks, and after one month, and answer questions five times a day via your smartphone.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- You will be followed for one month after the interventions.
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Targeting Components of Distress Tolerance
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Where it's being run
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What this trial measures
- Engagement behaviorsAssessed 5x/day via ecological momentary assessment
Emotion regulation strategies reflective of engagement; these are new items developed for this study and are not from an established scale. All items will be rated from 0 (not at all) to 6 (extremely). There will be 7 items assessing labeling ("I'm using emotion words to describe how I feel right now"), processing ("I'm reflecting on or writing about my feelings"), sharing ("I'm sharing how I feel with another person"), physical feeling ("I'm intentionally feeling my feelings in my body"), curiously considering ("I'm curiously considering how my feelings came about"), defusion ("I'm observing my feelings without getting 'stuck' in them"), and importance ("I'm trying to think about how this current situation maps on to what matters.")
- Disengagement behaviorsAssessed 5x/day via ecological momentary assessment
Emotion regulation strategies reflective of disengagement, some of which were modified from a momentary experiential avoidance measure (Hershenberg et al., 2017). All items will be rated from 0 (not at all) to 6 (extremely).Items will assess distraction ("Trying to distract myself from my feelings'), thought suppression ("Trying to push unwanted thoughts out of my mind."), discounting ("I'm telling myself I shouldn't be feeling the way I'm feeling"), expressive suppression ("I'm trying to control my feelings by not expressing them"), procrastination ("I'm intentionally putting of an unpleasant task until later"), denial ("I'm trying to 'turn off' the feelings that I don't want to feel"), and reduce importance ("Trying to think about the current situation as unimportant to me.")
- GAD-7Baseline, weekly for three weeks and then after one month followup
Symptoms of anxiety
- PHQ-9Baseline, weekly for three weeks and then after one month followup
symptoms of depression
- AUDITBaseline, weekly for three weeks and then after one month followup
Alcohol misuse
- Binge Eating Disorder ScaleBaseline, weekly for three weeks and then after one month followup
binge eating symptoms
- DSM Cross-Cutting Symptom MeasureBaseline, weekly for three weeks and then after one month followup
symptoms of psychopathology