Clinical trial NCT01695395: Mental Health Care Provision for Adults With Intellectual Disability and a Mental Disorder
Official title: Mental Health Care Provision for Adults With Mental Retardation and a Psychiatric Diagnosis
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Mental Disorder
Intellectual Disability
Keywords: intellectual disability
mental disorder
dual diagnosis
provision
needs assessment
quality of life
Lead sponsor: Technische Universität Dresden
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
First posted: 2012-09-28
Enrollment: 371
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study population are adults with mild or moderate intellectual disability.

Brief summary: Quality of mental health services provision for adults with intellectual disability and comorbid mental disorder is considered inadequate and therefore in need of further improvement. However, empirical findings on this topic are rather scarce. The MEMENTA-study therefore aims to compare mild and moderate intellectual disabled adults with a comorbid mental disorder to mild and moderate intellectual disabled adults who do not have a comorbid mental disorder with respect to clinical parameters. The MEMENTA-study is an observational, epidemiological, cross-sectional study. A representative sample of the target population is realised by the assessment of approximately n=600 intellectual disabled adults working at specialized facilities (sheltered workshops). A cluster sampling with probability proportional to institution and size (n of overall employed persons) will be followed by a simple random sampling of persons of these clustered facilities. A number of parameters such as severity of mental health impairment, needs for care, quality of life (QoL), caregiver burden, health services utilization, and costs for care will be assessed by using a set of well-established standardised instruments. Quality of mental health care will be assessed and examined by open questions to intellectual disabled adults with a comorbid mental disorder as well as informal caregivers and staff of caring institutions.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* mild or moderate intellectual disability
* adults aged between 18-65 years

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mental Health status
timeFrame: baseline
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dresden
country: Germany
facility: Psychiatric Health Service Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital
state: Saxony
city: Mannheim
country: Germany
facility: Central Institute of Mental Health
city: Ulm
country: Germany
facility: Mental Health Services RU, Department of Psychiatry II, Ulm University
Study officials:
affiliation: TU Dresden
name: Matthias Schützwohl, PD Dr.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Koch A, Vogel A, Holzmann M, Pfennig A, Salize HJ, Puschner B, Schutzwohl M. MEMENTA-'Mental healthcare provision for adults with intellectual disability and a mental disorder'. A cross-sectional epidemiological multisite study assessing prevalence of psychiatric symptomatology, needs for care and quality of healthcare provision for adults with intellectual disability in Germany: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 2014 May 20;4(5):e004878. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-004878.