Follow up of Patients Treated With Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Hypochondria From 1997 to 2007
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00959452 |
Recruitment Status
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Active, not recruiting
First Posted
: August 14, 2009
Last Update Posted
: November 9, 2016
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Hypochondriasis | Behavioral: Cognitive behavioural therapy | Not Applicable |
The follow-up includes a telephone interview by independent researcher and the patients fill in the following questionnaires:
Whiteley Index (measures health anxiety), VAS-scales for health anxiety, worrying about symptoms and body checking, SF-36 (health related quality of life), Giessen Subjective Complaints List, Spielberger Trait and State Anxiety Scale Beck Depression Inventory, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28), Somatic Amplification Scale,
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 250 participants |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Follow up of Patients Treated With Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at Clinic for Hypochondriacs, Haraldsplass Deaconal Hospital, From 1997 to 2007 |
Study Start Date : | January 1997 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2010 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 2017 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Psychotherapy |
Behavioral: Cognitive behavioural therapy
16 sessions vs 5 sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy
Other Name: Cognitive therapy
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- Level of health anxiety [ Time Frame: 10 years follow up ]
- Health related quality of life [ Time Frame: 10 years follow-up ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Fulfilling ICD-10 criteria for hypochondriacal disorder
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unwillingness to participate
- Substance abuse
- Serious psychological (f.inst. psychosis, major depression) or somatic (f.inst. cancer) disease

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Norway | |
Haraldsplass Deaconal Hospital | |
Bergen, Norway, 5009 |
Principal Investigator: | Ingvard Wilhelmsen, PhD | University of Bergen |
Publications of Results:
Responsible Party: | Ingvard Wilhelmsen, Professor, University of Bergen |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00959452 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
17242 |
First Posted: | August 14, 2009 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 9, 2016 |
Last Verified: | November 2016 |
Keywords provided by Ingvard Wilhelmsen, University of Bergen:
Hypochondria Cognitive behavioural therapy Long term follow-up Psychosomatics Psychotherapy |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hypochondriasis Somatoform Disorders Mental Disorders |