Depression Clinical Trial
Official title:
Expressive Writing for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol Misuse
***Please note that this study does not offer comprehensive treatment program for alcohol
abuse or depression. Please do not contact the study staff if you are seeking psychological
treatment. Further, this study is only enrolling people who are clients at Career and
Recovery Resources, Inc., in Houston.
The hypothesis is that writing about feelings and thoughts will help people who are in group
treatment feel less depressed and abuse alcohol less.
Expressive writing applied to a variety of populations (e.g., HIV, cancer, PTSD, depression) has been associated with health improvements, reductions in symptoms of emotional distress, and one preliminary study found reductions in alcohol misuse among college students. Data suggest that expressive writing is a technique to facilitate emotional processing that can influence a number of clinical outcomes by facilitating cognitive restructuring (Hunt, 1998; Pennebaker, 2004). In addition to examining cognitive content change following expressive writing, we believe the effects of emotional writing on mood and drinking may involve two additional processes that have been found significant for both depression and alcohol misuse, namely experiential avoidance and ruminative thinking. We hypothesize that expressive writing will lead to less drinking and enhanced mood by reducing: (1) negative thought content, (2) experiential avoidance of unpleasant private events (e.g., negative thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations), and (3) ruminative thinking. ;
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
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