Status:
COMPLETED
Hoarding Older Adults
Lead Sponsor:
VA Office of Research and Development
Conditions:
Compulsive Hoarding
Eligibility:
All Genders
60-85 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this investigation is to examine treatment outcome of a new intervention for hoarding in older adults compared to standard case management for hoarding. The new intervention combines ex...
Detailed Description
Research has shown that hoarding disorder (HD) is debilitating chronic and progressive condition that has significant public health implications. Older adults represent the largest group of HD suffers...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Participants must be between the ages of 60 - 85 years old and meet clinical criteria for Compulsive Hoarding (CH) developed by the Steketee and Frost (2000) research group. These criteria include:
- significant amount of clutter in active living spaces
- the urge to collect, buy, or acquire things
- an extreme reluctance to part with items
- clutter accumulation that causes distress or interferes with functioning
- symptom duration of at least 6 months
- the reluctance to part with items is not accounted for by other psychiatric conditions.
- To be enrolled, patients must have:
- a score of 20 or greater on the University of California, Los Angeles Hoarding Severity Scale (UHSS)
- 40 or greater on the Savings Inventory-Revised (SI-R)
- severity rating of 4 or higher on the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule (ADIS-IV) rating scales for clutter and difficulty discarding
- and diagnosis confirmed at a consensus conference including at least two licensed professionals with expertise in CH (myself and at least one mentor).
Exclusion
- Individuals with moderate to severe cognitive deficits (scores below 23 on the MMSE) will be excluded.
- Prospective participants must not have active substance abuse problems.
- Participants will also be excluded if they are currently in other forms of psychotherapy.
- Participants must have no change in any psychotropic medications for at least three months prior to the initial assessment.
- Patients with current psychosis or mania will be excluded.
- Mood and anxiety disorders are permitted as long as compulsive hoarding is the primary diagnosis.
- Participants will are not eligible if they have active suicidal ideation, those participants will be given immediate medical or mental health attention.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
58 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01227057
Start Date
November 1 2010
End Date
April 1 2015
Last Update
July 24 2018
Active Locations (1)
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VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
San Diego, California, United States, 92161