Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:37 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:37 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01227057
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
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 Criteria:
* 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.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
60 Years
Maximum Age:
85 Years
Study:
NCT01227057
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01227057