Clinical trial NCT05366998: Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcome
Official title: Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcome: A Study of the Private Clinic Hohenegg
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Therapeutic Alliance
Keywords: Therapeutic Alliance
Treatment Outcome
Lead sponsor: Privatklinik Hohenegg
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-05-10
Enrollment: 102
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All Patients who are admitted to the PKH. The PKH is a Swiss clinic with 70 beds, located in a rural setting. It treats patients in an inpatient setting for the following psychiatric disorders: depression, burnout, anxiety and psychosomatic disorders.

Brief summary: This study aims to inform scientific understanding of the impact of the therapeutic alliance and the transition from inpatient to outpatient care.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All patients admitted to in-patient treatment in the private psychiatric clinic Hohenegg (PKH) from November 2021 onwards

Exclusion Criteria:

* Due to the naturalistic approach of the study, there will be no selection or exclusion made

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline psychological distress on Brief Symptom Checklist (BSCL, German version) at post-treatment and follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline, post-treatment (after 6-8 weeks) and follow-up (after 2-4 months)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline quality of life on short version of the Incongruence Questionnaire (K-INK) at post-treatment and follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline, post-treatment (after 6-8 weeks) and follow-up (after 2-4 months)
measure: Change from baseline quality of life on the short version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument-Abbreviated Version (EUROHIS-QOL, German version) at post-treatment and follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline, post-treatment (after 6-8 weeks) and follow-up (after 2-4 months)
measure: Change from post-treatment therapeutic alliance (inpatient treatment) on the short version of the Working Alliance Inventory - short revised (WAI-SR, German version) at follow-up (outpatient treatment)
timeFrame: Post-treatment (after 6-8 weeks) and follow-up (after 2-4 months)
measure: Perceived social support in inpatient setting at post-treatment on the Fellow Patient Social Support (FEPB)
timeFrame: Post-treatment (after 6-8 weeks)
measure: Perceived social support in outpatient setting at follow-up on the short version Social Support Questionnaire (F-SozU K-14, German Version)
timeFrame: follow-up (after 2-4 months)
measure: Perceived helpfulness of therapy for therapist effect at post-treatment on a single item
timeFrame: Post-treatment (after 6-8 weeks)
measure: Perceived experience of loneliness at follow-up on the short version of the UCLA loneliness scale (UCLA, German version)
timeFrame: follow-up (after 2-4 months)
Other outcomes:
measure: Perceived experience of the transition from the inpatient to the outpatient setting at post-treatment on a qualitative item
timeFrame: Post-treatment (after 6-8 weeks)
measure: Perceived experience of the transition from the inpatient to the outpatient setting at follow-up on qualitative items (Questions in this form are minimally adapted without changing intention due to the limited characters)
timeFrame: follow-up (after 2-4 months)
measure: Additional demographics; previous inpatient settings and significant events after the clinic at follow-up on qualitative items
timeFrame: follow-up (after 2-4 months)
Locations:
city: Meilen
country: Switzerland
facility: Privatklinik Hohenegg
state: Zürich
Study officials:
affiliation: Privatklinik Hohenegg
name: Cosima A. Locher, Dr. phil.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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