Everyday therapists? study tests Non-Licensed CBT in hospitals
NCT ID NCT01075672
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether unlicensed professionals can successfully provide cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to patients in a general hospital. It includes 250 adults with conditions like anxiety, depression, OCD, and PTSD. The goal is to see if this approach improves psychological health and makes care more accessible.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 250 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Start date
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Jan 2010
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients presenting to the Behavioral Medicine Service are generally individuals with an acute or chronic medical condition or medically related concern with or without an associated DSM-IV psychiatric disorder, as well as adult patients who require assistance with changing health or health-risk behaviors. Patients presenting to the OCD program typically have obsessive compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, Tourette syndrome, compulsive skin picking, or trichotillomania. Patients presenting to the general CBT program typically have panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, specific phobia, post traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or an eating disorder. Patients at any of the programs have an identifiable behavior or behavioral pattern/ mood problem that they would like to change. * Age 18 or older * Ability to provide informed consent and comply with the study procedures * Ability to complete self-report questionnaires (either written hardcopy or computer-based version) with adequate accommodation, if necessary * Patients with a PCP at MGH, receiving specialty care at MGH, or employees of MGH. Exclusion Criteria: * Exhibit active suicidality (suicidal ideation with intent or plan) to the point that more intensive treatment (i.e. acute hospitalization) is required. * Active untreated and unstable bipolar disorder (i.e. stable bipolar disorder under care of a psychiatrist is allowed). * Psychosis. * Mental retardation. * Any condition that, after the baseline evaluation, is determined to preclude treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy. * Received more than 4 sessions of CBT for the target disorder within the past 3 years.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Behavioral Medicine Programs, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, United States
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