Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Introduction Seminar About Patient Participation, Treatment Options and Decisional Preferences for Psychiatric Outpatients on Waiting List
Brief Summary: Patient participation (PP) in Hospital is a goal defined by the Norwegian Health Authorities and it is a mandatory activity for District Psychiatric out-patient Centres (DPC) in Norway: patients are entitled to have influence on their treatment and should receive sufficient information directed at empowerment. Nevertheless, studies from Norway have found that patients who seek help are dissatisfied with the information they receive and doubt their possibility for real influence on their treatment. One way to improve individual PP might be to give patients sufficient information and education before they start their treatment in the form of an educational group intervention, an introduction seminar (IS); this group intervention is less time and resource consuming than individual interventions.

Aims: The main purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate an IS for patients on a waiting list of DPC. The seminar will educate patients, so they can actively participate in their own treatment and, thereby, choosing treatment, reducing the risk of dropping out of treatment. Another aim is to enable patients to participate in their own treatment, to cope with their problems while they are waiting for treatment by providing them contact with primary health care and user organizations during their waiting time, and to increase adherence.

Methods: The project involves three components: an exploratory study of educational content of the seminar; RCT of that 4-hours program (to examine its effect on treatment preferences and choices, activation, satisfaction, mental health and cost-benefit) and then a post-seminar qualitative evaluation, which will be used to create a broad yet deep understanding of the practical side of the participants'experience and the seminar's effect.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Clinical diagnoses of schizophrenia
* Living in half-way houses or community home
* Under the services of sheltered or supported employment
* The reading ability of graduated elementary school at least

Exclusion Criteria:

* Acute psychosis
* Severe physical illness
* Legally incompetence to make major decision
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient's hospital record meeting the criteria for schizophrenia according to ICD-10 F.20.0-9 or schizoaffective disorder according to ICD-10 F.25.0-9
* Age 18 - 70 years at the time of inclusion
* Ability to understand, speak and write Danish - assessed by the community nurse
* Informed written consent
* receiving treatment in an assertive outreach team or psychosis team in region north in Denmark

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previous participation with the method GSD
* Patients who are mentally handicapped or diagnosed with any kind of dementia or an organic brain disease according to their hospital record
* In need of an interpreter to understand, speak and write Danish
* Withdrawal of informed consent
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 60 years and older
* Moderate to severe levels of worry

Exclusion Criteria:

* Currently receiving psychotherapy
* Currently practicing yoga
* Active alcohol/substance abuse
* Dementia
* Current psychotic symptoms
* Active suicidal ideation with plan and intent
* Hearing loss that would prevent a person from participating in telephone/class sessions
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* older than 18 years
* referred for out-patient treatment
* guarantee of starting treatment between 2 and 4 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* guarantee of starting treatment in less than 2 months
* Patients who do not understand the consequences of taking part of the study

Answer: D