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Psilocybin-assisted Group Therapy for Demoralization in Long-term AIDS Survivors

NCT02950467 · Joshua Woolley

Closed to entry
Status
Not accepting participants
Phase 1
Phase
30
Target enrolment
1
Study sites
1 US states

What it is testing

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether psilocybin-assisted group psychotherapy is a safe and feasible treatment for demoralization in long-term AIDS survivors (LTAS).

Summary as written by the trial’s own sponsor and published on ClinicalTrials.gov API v2. It is the sponsor’s description, reproduced unedited, not an assessment by this site.

What counts as success

Primary outcome measures

  • Number of Participants Who Experienced Treatment-related Adverse Events as Assessed by NIH Division of AIDS Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events, Version 2.0

    Measured over Enrollment to 3-month follow up, about 5 months

  • Subject Recruitment and Retention

    Measured over Duration of study, about 24 months

A trial succeeds or fails on its primary outcome, declared in advance. Everything else it reports is secondary by definition.

Who can take part

Eligibility, as published

50 Years
Ages
All
Sex
Not accepted
Healthy volunteers
Inclusion Criterion: * Older individuals who are long-term AIDS survivors and suffer from moderate-to-severe demoralization. Exclusion Criteria: * A physical, neurological or cognitive condition that makes participating in the study unsafe or unfeasible. * Regular psychotropic medication use. * Personal or family history of serious mental illness. * Severe depression requiring immediate standard-of-care treatment. * Exclusion by the clinical judgment of the study investigators.

Where

1 study site

FacilityCityRegionCountry
University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

On the registry

Contact the trial directly

This site does not enrol anyone and is not involved in this trial. To ask about taking part, use the sponsor’s own contact details on the official registry record, which is also where the most current version of everything above lives.

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NCT02950467 on ClinicalTrials.gov →

Last updated in the registry 2021-01-07. Registry records change; this page reflects the data build of 2026-08-25.

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