Clinical trials: Alexithymia
Interoceptive Awareness, Interoception
Haptic Feedback for Improved Interoceptive Awareness and Mental Well-being
This study investigates the relationship between heart-beat haptic feedback on interoceptive awareness and mental-wellbeing. Previous research showed non-significant results in short-term emotion regulation tasks when given…
- Conditions
- Interoceptive Awareness, Interoception, Alexithymia, Anxiety
- Trial name
- NCT07809958
- Testing
- Heart rate feedback from smartwatch
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Asthma, Emotional Disorder
Asthma, Smoking, Emotional Deficits
The objective of the study is to determine whether poor control of asthma is related to an emotional deficit such as alexithymia.
- Conditions
- Asthma, Emotional Disorder, Alexithymia
- Trial name
- ASTADEM (NCT03312673)
- Testing
- Interview and tests of drawing.
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Alcohol-Related Disorders
Body-Focused Mindfulness as an Add-on Intervention in Inpatient Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment (MBI-AUD-PL)
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a body-focused mindfulness program can help people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) feel more connected to their bodies and manage their emotions better.
- Trial name
- MBI-AUD-PL (NCT07706660)
- Testing
- Body-Focused Mindfulness Intervention, Standard Psychoeducation
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 240 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Warsaw
Social Functioning, Alexithymia and Sense of Coherence , Bipolar Disorders
The Effect of Physical Exercises Program on Social Functioning, Alexithymia and Sense of Coherence Among Patients With Bipolar Disorders
The aim of this study is to: Investigate the effect of applying physical exercises program on social functioning, alexithymia and sense of coherence among patients with bipolar disorders Research Hypotheses Clients who…
- Trial name
- NCT05741281
- Testing
- Physical exercises program
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Alexandria University
Alexithymia, Emotion Regulation
Emotion Regulation Training, Nursing Student, and Alexithymia
This study aimed to investigate the effects of emotional regulation training, which is a prepared based on the cognitive behavioral approach, on alexithymia in nursing students.
- Trial name
- NCT06701097
- Testing
- Emotion regulation training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 74 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ankara Medipol University
Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia
Evaluation of Art-therapy on Alexithymia in Patients Suffering From Anorexia Nervosa and From Bulimia
Alexithymia is often found in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa or from bulimia. Art-therapy is widely used in this indication without there is a study in the literature assessing it.
- Trial name
- ALEXART (NCT03524443)
- Testing
- Art Therapy treatment
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Chronic Pain, Quality of Life
The Effect of Aerobic Exercise in Alexithymic Individuals With Chronic Pain
It was aimed to investigate the effect of aerobic exercise on pain, alexithymia level and quality of life in young alexithymic individuals with chronic pain.
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain, Quality of Life, Alexithymia
- Trial name
- NCT05460806
- Testing
- Aerobic Exercise
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- KTO Karatay University
Kidney Transplant Rejection
Expressive Writing in Kidney Transplant Patients
Kidney transplantation is a replacement treatment for chronic renal failure that improves quality of life. However, it can be experienced as traumatic in relation to the changes it entails in terms of lifestyle, redefinition of…
- Trial name
- EWKTP (NCT04143178)
- Testing
- Expressive Writing, Neutral Writing
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
Chronic Coccydynia, Alexithymia
Evaluation of Alexithymia and Its Relationship With Clinical Parameters in Patients With Chronic Coccydynia
This study aims to investigate the prevalence and levels of alexithymia in patients diagnosed with chronic coccydynia (tailbone pain lasting for 3 months or longer) and to explore its relationship with various clinical and…
- Trial name
- NCT07696260
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Marmara University
Fibromyalgia (FM), Alexithymia
Alexithymia Levels in Fibromyalgia
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the changes in alexithymia levels in fibromyalgia patients over a six-month period following a combined treatment and to assess the relationship between changes in fibromyalgia…
- Trial name
- NCT06841302
- Testing
- Fibromyalgia Agents
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 123 people
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
Anorexia Nervosa
Facial Emotion Recognition in Anorexia Nervosa
Altered emotional processing is reported in Anorexia Nervosa. However, this capability is generally measured through explicit measures, like self-report questionnaires and facial emotion recognition tasks.
- Trial name
- FER_AN (NCT06299293)
- Testing
- Facial Emotion Recognition Test
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Alexithymia, Empathy Skills
Film-Based Medical Education and Social Justice Course: Effects on Alexithymia and Empathy in Medical Students
This study will examine whether a 14-week elective course that uses films and guided discussion on social justice in health care can improve medical students' empathy skills and reduce alexithymia (difficulty recognizing and…
- Conditions
- Alexithymia, Empathy Skills, Education, Medical, Social Justice Advocacy
- Trial name
- NCT07399366
- Testing
- Film-Based Medical Education and Social Justice Elective
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Coccydynia, Chronic Pain
Alexithymia, Pain Intensity, Quality of Life, and Psychological Symptoms in Chronic Coccydynia Patients Scheduled for Ganglion Impar Block
Chronic coccydynia is characterized by pain localized to the coccygeal region that typically worsens with sitting, leading to notable impairments in functional performance and health-related quality of life.
- Conditions
- Coccydynia, Chronic Pain, Alexithymia
- Trial name
- NCT07828145
- Testing
- Psychometric and Clinical Survey Battery
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- Marmara University
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Alexithymia
Clinical Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Two Teletherapy Programs at Improving Psychological Health in People With Brain Injury
The purpose of the study is to test two different training programs to find out which is better at helping people with a concussion or mild TBI (mTBI) improve their emotional health and well-being.
- Trial name
- NCT07436754
- Testing
- Program 1, Program 2
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Hackensack Meridian Health
Alexithymia, HIV
Role of CBD in Improving Alexithymia
Given the treatments that are available today for HIV disease, people living with HIV (PLWH) can generally expect good medical outcomes.
- Trial name
- ACBD (NCT05832281)
- Testing
- Purysis CBD
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Traumatic Brain Injury, Alexithymia
Training to Reconnect With Emotional Awareness Therapy
To decrease emotional self-awareness deficits and improve emotional self-regulation, particularly anxiety, anger, depression, and positive affect, through the treatment of alexithymia.
- Trial name
- TREAT (NCT03414463)
- Testing
- TREAT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Alexithymia, Anxiety
Group Skills Training (DBT vs CBT) for Alexithymia in Young Adult Women
This pilot randomized controlled trial examined whether group skills training based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can reduce alexithymia (difficulty identifying and describing…
- Conditions
- Alexithymia, Anxiety, Interpersonal Problems, Emotion Regulation
- Trial name
- NCT07865494
- Testing
- DBT-based Group Skills Training (DBT-GST), CBT-based Group Skills Training (CBT-GST)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 41 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Atlas University
Depression, Alexithymia
Effects of 12-week Exercises on Alexithymia, Depression and Quality of Life in Geriatric Individuals
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of aerobic and resistance exercises on depression, alexithymia levels and quality of life of elderly individuals.
- Conditions
- Depression, Alexithymia, Quality of Life, Physical Inactivity
- Trial name
- EXQUALITY (NCT05342142)
- Testing
- Aerobic and ResistanceExercise
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sultan Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Adult Women
Interoceptive Awareness and Dream Themes
Individual differences in reported dream themes may reflect not only waking emotional and cognitive experiences but also characteristic ways of attending to, interpreting, and regulating bodily signals.
- Trial name
- NCT07716514
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 307 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan University
Migraine, Alexithymia
Studio TIARA: Alessitimia ed Emicrania Cronica
The aim of this observational, cross-sectional study is to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and migraine frequency (considering alexithymia a condition that can influence the severity of the clinical phenotype of…
- Trial name
- TIARA (NCT06891053)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 350 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Alessandria