This study explores the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of four imagery intervention techniques (metacognitive imagery intervention, imagery rescripting, promoting positive imagery and competing imagery task) for auditory vocal hallucinations using four single case series with an A-B-A within subject design.
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Change from baseline level of auditory vocal hallucinations to follow-up at two weeks after end of therapy.
Timeframe: Measured three times a day during two weeks of baseline, three weeks of intervention and two weeks of follow-up (an average of 7 weeks)
Change from baseline level of mental imagery characteristics (frequency of imagery, quality of imagery and appraisals of imagery) to follow-up at two weeks after end of therapy.
Timeframe: Measured three times a day during two weeks of baseline, three weeks of intervention and two weeks of follow-up (an average of 7 weeks)
Treatment safety (change from baseline level of auditory verbal hallucinations to follow-up at the end of therapy).
Timeframe: Administered before baseline period of two weeks, immediately after two weeks of baseline, weekly during the intervention of three weeks and immediately after the end of intervention of three weeks
Number of Participants with serious adverse events
Timeframe: Administered through study completion, an average of 7 weeks.
Drop-out rate (i.e., number of participants that drop out)
Timeframe: Administered through study completion, an average of 7 weeks.
Treatment quality
Timeframe: Administered immediately after the end of intervention of three weeks