Clinical trial NCT06263933: Effect of Experience Sharing and Mutual Assistance on Insight and Recovery During the First Psychotic Episode
Official title: Effect of Experience Sharing and Mutual Assistance on Insight and Recovery During the First Psychotic Episode
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychotic Episode
Keywords: retablishment
insight
mutual assistance
peer helper
psychiatric hospitalization
first psychotic episode
Lead sponsor: Centre hospitalier de Ville-Evrard, France
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-02-16
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: A control group and a intervention group
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: Controlled, prospective, qualitative and quantitative trial. The goal of this trial is to evaluate the mutual assistance early intervention device efficacy and its impact on insight and personal recovery of participants living with a first psychotic episode. This intervention lasts 5 days with 1 session per day of 1 hour 30 minutes. Three evaluations, before the intervention, after intervention and 1 month after the hospitalization's end.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Man or woman between 18 and 40 years old
* First psychotic episode under the guidance of a doctor
* Brief psycotic trouble (SM-V)
* Presenting a first psychiatry hospitalization (all modalities hospitalizations combined)
* Fluent in French language (read and written)
* Patient affiliated to a social protection system or beneficiary of Medical Aid of State
* Patient having signed informed consent for his participation in the protocol

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients whose clinical condition does not allow them to participate in research
* Patients placed in isolation rooms during the intervention

Primary outcomes:
measure: The level of the increasing of The INSIGHT scale
timeFrame: at baseline (T0) and at 5 days after the intervention's beginning (T1).
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The increase of Recovery Scale
timeFrame: At baseline (T0) and at 5 days after the intervention's beginning (T1).
measure: The semi-structured interview
timeFrame: At baseline (T0) and at 1 month after the hospitalization's end (T2).
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Neuilly-sur-Marne
country: France
facility: Etablissement Public de Santé de Ville-Evrard
Study officials:
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