- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01955538
The Effect of BAT Versus Mixed Physical Activity as add-on Treatment for Traumatised Refugees. (PTF4)
Treatment of Traumatised Refugees: the Effect of Basic Body Awareness Therapy Versus Mixed Physical Activity as add-on Treatment. A Randomised Controlled Trial.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
About the clinic: The study will be carried out at the Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry Denmark (CTP) (before January 2013 named Psychiatric Trauma Clinic for Refugees (PTF)). The clinic was established in 2008 and since 2009 the clinic has been carrying out randomised, controlled trials aiming to increase knowledge about the treatment effect of different types of treatment for traumatised refugees. The target group of the centre is traumatised refugees with PTSD, depression and anxiety. Patients are referred to CTP by general practitioners or psychiatrists. CTP treats approximately 200 patients/year.
The treatment is inter-disciplinary and consists of consultations with a medical doctor whereby pharmacological treatment according to best practice in the field is given, supplemented by cognitive behavioural therapy by a psychologist. Manuals are used for both the treatment given by the medical doctor as well as the psychologist. The total duration of treatment is 6 months.
Material and methods: 310 patients will be included from September 2013 to approximately May 2015. At the referral interview it is clarified whether the patient meets the inclusion or exclusion criteria. If the patient meets the inclusion criteria and gives her/his consent to participate, the patient is randomised to one of the three intervention groups:
A) Control group: receives treatment as usual (TAU) consisting of: 6 months of consultations and medical treatment according to best clinical practice by a medical doctor as well as manual-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy by a psychologist.
B) Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT): TAU + BBAT.
C) Mixed physical activity (MPA): TAU + MPA
The duration of B and C is 20 weeks each, 1 hour/week.
The physical activity will be on individual sessions.
- Quality assurance plan: Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is monitoring and auditing the project from the project's start to its end. Moreover, The Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry (CTP) has a monitoring team monitoring the data being registered as data are coming in.
- Data checks: GCP as well as the before mentioned monitoring team will be doing data checks and auditing during the time the trial is running.
- Source data verification: to assess the accuracy, completeness and representativity of registry data, the monitoring team of CTP is during the trial comparing the data registered manually by doctors, psychologists, physiotherapist and social workers with e.g. the papers filled in by the patients themselves. Data registered from the patients in the trial are also registered from the patients that are not participating in the trial. By comparing those data, this will show the representativity of the data from this population.
- Standard Operating Procedures: All adverse events will be registered in the individual patient records in the period from the first consultation at the centre to the last consultation at the centre of each patient.
All Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) will be reported by sponsor or investigator to The National Committee on Health Research Ethics (within 7 days after investigator has become aware of any such), with comments enclosed on potential consequences for the trial.
Sponsor will yearly submit a report to The National Committee on Health Research Ethics on all SAEs, with an assessment attached on the security of the patients participating in the trial.
The report will be submitted each year on the day when the trial was given approval from The National Committee on Health Research Ethics.
A list of all patients screened for participating in the trial and of all patients finally included in the trial will be kept.
- Data dictionary: not relevant.
- Randomisation is carried out by the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen, with practical assistance from a group of secretaries not linked to the daily work at CTP. The participants will be stratified by gender and severity of PTSD symptoms on the basis of Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ). Blinding of patients and practitioners is not considered to be possible, but intervention-group blinded Hamilton Depression and Anxiety ratings will be carried out at the beginning and at the end of treatment. The Hamilton raters are medical students trained at the clinic and take part in regular joint ratings to ensure high quality and inter-rater reliability.
- Data processing/statistical analysis:
Size of material and power calculation:
If 200 patients are divided into three groups of about 65 patients, power to detect a group difference in the treatment effect of ½ standard deviation (SD) will be 81%, while power to detect a difference of 1 SD will be close to 100%. Differences in quantitative outcomes less than ½ SD between the two treatments are considered to be less relevant from a clinical point of view. Cut-offs are available for several rating scales, and these can be used to define categorical outcome variables. If for example the proportions below cut-off for clinical case status are 50% and 25% in two groups, power will be close to 80% to detect a significant group differences.
Data analysis: The primary outcome variables are differences during the treatment course calculated as differences between start, middle and end ratings. The unadjusted differences between the two intervention groups can be measured by a t-test, while adjustment of the differences for baseline values and possible background factors (such as gender and age) can be done by ANCOVA/linear regression.
In addition, cut-off can be used on symptom scores and logistic regression analyses can be carried out with over/under cut-off as binary outcome. In addition to completer analyses, drop-out analysis and intention-to-treat analyses will be carried out.
Hypotheses concerning predictors of treatment effects can be analysed by including the potential predictors in linear or logistic regression models including treatment group and relevant covariates.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Hellerup
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Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark, 2900
- Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric Centre Ballerup.
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients referred to treatment for PTSD at Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry from September 2013 to May 2015.
- Adults (18 years or older)
- Refugees or persons who have been brought in under family reunification
- Symptoms of PTSD pursuant to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) research criteria.
- Psychological trauma in the anamnesis. Trauma is typically imprisonment or detention with torture (according to the United Nations definition of torture) or acts of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. Trauma can also be organised violence, long-term political persecution and harassment, or war and civil war experiences.
- Assessed by a doctor to be motivated for treatment
- Informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe psychotic disorder (defined as patients with an ICD-10 diagnosis F2x and F30.1-F30.9). Patients are excluded only if the psychotic-like experiences are assessed to be part of an independent psychotic disorder and not part of a severe PTSD and/or depression.
- Current abuser of drugs and alcohol (F1x.24-F1x.26).
- In need of admission to psychiatric hospital.
- No informed consent.
- Physical handicaps that make the person unable to participate in the physical activity.
- Cardiac arrhythmia identified on the electrocardiogram taken before start of the treatment or symptoms of heart problems that are unclarified.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Control
Psychiatric treatment as usual for 6 months according to best clinical practice: 10 consultations with a medical doctor (medication and psycho-education) as well as 16 consultations with a psychologist.
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Psychiatric treatment as usual for 6 months according to best clinical practice.
20 weeks, 1 hour/week.
20 weeks, 1 hour/week.
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EXPERIMENTAL: Basic Body Awareness Therapy
Standard psychiatric treatment + Basic Body Awareness Therapy for 20 weeks, 1 hour/week.
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20 weeks, 1 hour/week.
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EXPERIMENTAL: Mixed physical activity
Standard psychiatric treatment + Mixed physical activity for 20 weeks, 1 hour/week.
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20 weeks, 1 hour/week.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Change in Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Change in Hopkins Symptom Check List (HSCL-25)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Hamilton depression + anxiety (HAM D+A)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in World Health Organisation-5 (WHO5)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Sheehan Disability Scale
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Dynamic Gait Index (DGI)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Senior Fitness Test (SFT)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in De Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of the treatment and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Change in Global assessment of function (GAF)
Time Frame: Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Assessing a potential change between baseline at the beginning of treatment, after three months and after 6 months (at the end of treatment).
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Maja Sticker Nordbrandt, MD, Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Masmas TN, Moller E, Buhmann C, Bunch V, Jensen JH, Hansen TN, Jorgensen LM, Kjaer C, Mannstaedt M, Oxholm A, Skau J, Theilade LA, Worm L, Ekstrom M. [Health status and degree of traumatisation among newly arrived asylum seeker--secondary publication]. Ugeskr Laeger. 2010 Jan 11;172(2):120-4. Danish.
- Olsen DR, Montgomery E, Bojholm S, Foldspang A. Prevalence of pain in the head, back and feet in refugees previously exposed to torture: a ten-year follow-up study. Disabil Rehabil. 2007 Jan 30;29(2):163-71. doi: 10.1080/09638280600747645.
- Nordbrandt MS, Sonne C, Mortensen EL, Carlsson J. Trauma-affected refugees treated with basic body awareness therapy or mixed physical activity as augmentation to treatment as usual-A pragmatic randomised controlled trial. PLoS One. 2020 Mar 12;15(3):e0230300. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230300. eCollection 2020.
- Nordbrandt MS, Carlsson J, Lindberg LG, Sandahl H, Mortensen EL. Treatment of traumatised refugees with basic body awareness therapy versus mixed physical activity as add-on treatment: Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 2015 Oct 22;16:477. doi: 10.1186/s13063-015-0974-9.
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Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- PTF4
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