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In-home Decluttering Augmentation of Group CBT for HD
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Karolinska Institutet
- Where
- Sweden1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- People taking part
- 90 people, planned
- Started
- 29 Jan 2021
- Ended
- 31 Mar 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- In-home decluttering practice
- Record updated
- 19 September 2025
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age 18 years or older
- Hoarding disorder as primary psychiatric condition
- Willing and able to understand and complete consent and study procedures
- Living in the Stockholm county (Sweden) and within a 1-hour commute by public transport from the social services office
Who cannot take part
- Concurrent CBT or having received CBT for HD during the last two years, for a minimum of 8 sessions including active strategies for reducing acquisition and practice of discarding with a qualified therapist or 8 previous in-home decluttering sessions with a qualified social worker
- Currently at high risk for eviction (for instance having received a "rättelseanmaning" by the housing company or Swedish court)
- Animal hoarding or squalid (i.e. extremely unhygienic) home conditions that are deemed to put the personnel at risk during the in-home decluttering
- A diagnosis of organic brain disorder, intellectual disability, psychosis, bipolar disorder without stable medication or with symptoms within the last 6 months, anorexia nervosa or alcohol/substance dependence or abuse
- Major medical or neurological conditions that increase the risk of participation or that would prevent completing assigned behavioral practice tasks
- Unable or unwilling to allow study staff into home for home assessment
- Immediate risk to self or others, requiring urgent medical attention, such as high suicidality risk
- Participant not able to read and communicate in Swedish
- Potential participant lives in the same household as an already included participant
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The primary aim of trial is to determine the clinical efficacy of in-home decluttering augmentation of group CBT for reducing hoarding severity in adults with HD. The trial takes place in Sweden.
The 2 groups in the trial
- In-home declutteringTreatment being tested
Study participants receive weekly sessions of in-home decluttering for 10 weeks.
Treatment: In-home decluttering practice
- Delayed treatmentNo study treatment, for comparison
Study participants receive weekly session of in-home decluttering after a 10 week delay.
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- In-home Decluttering Augmentation of Group Cognitive-behavior Therapy for Hoarding Disorder: The Joining Forces Randomized Controlled Trial
- Record updated
- 19 September 2025