A Working Memory Training in Burnout Patients

Burnout Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02119962
• Other study ID #: 3
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 8, 2014
• Last updated: April 18, 2014
• Start date: June 2013

Study information

• Verified date: April 2014
• Source: Erasmus Medical Center
• Contact: Sabine Wanmaker, MSc
• Phone: 0031616427805
• Email: wanmaker[@]fsw.eur.nl
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Netherlands: Medical Ethics Review Committee (METC)Netherlands: The Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO)
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Burnout patients show deficient working memory functioning. Several studies showed a training can increase working memory capacity. In the current study we explored whether training working memory can reduce burnout and burnout related symptoms and increase working memory capacity.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. primary completion date: September 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 67 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• undifferentiated somatoform disorder with a work related cause

Exclusion Criteria:

• age which exceeded the range of 18 to 67 years

• a severe major depressive episode

• substance dependence or abuse

Study Design

Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Working memory training

• Placebo training

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Netherlands	HSK	Arnhem	Gelderland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Erasmus Medical Center	HSK

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Netherlands, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Change in Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90) score on pre and post training and two months after training	The Dutch version of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (Derogatis, 1977) is a 90-item self-report questionnaire which measures psychosocial distress of the last week - including the day of testing - on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely).	Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test)	No
Other	Change in Digit Span score on pre and post training and two months after training	The Digit Span consists of two parts with 14 trials each: the forward Digit Span measures short term memory, whereas the backward version measures WM.	Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test)	No
Other	Change in Reading Span partial-credit unit score on pre and post training and two months after training	The Reading Span assesses the processing and storage functions of WM (Shipstead et al., 2012).	Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test)	No
Primary	Change in Utrechtse Burnout Scale (UBOS) score on pre and post training and two months after training	The Dutch translation of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey (Schaufeli, Leiter, Maslach, & Jackson, 1996), the Utrechtse Burnout Scale-A, measures the severity of burnout symptoms.	Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test)	No
Secondary	Change in Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) score on pre and post training and two months after training	The Cognitive Failure Questionnarie measures the frequency of participants' experienced cognitive failures regarding memory, action, perception and attention.	Baseline, post (4 weeks after baseline), after last session of cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up (2 months after post-test)	No