Clinical trial NCT00967265: Introduction Seminar About Patient Participation and Treatment Options for Psychiatric Patients on Waiting List
Official title: Introduction Seminar About Patient Participation and Treatment Options for Patients on Waiting List in a Community Mental Health Centre - Development, Effect, Experiences and Costs
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Disorders
Keywords: Introduction seminar
Psychoeducation
Waiting list
Patient participation
Mental disorders
Lead sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF
First posted: 2009-08-27
Enrollment: 92
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Patient participation is a central concept in Norwegian health policy. It is mandatory in hospitals and emphasised as one of the most prioritised areas by the Government. Studies from Norway have repeatedly found that patients who seek help in community mental health centres ("DPS") are dissatisfied with the information they receive and about their possibility for real influence in their treatment.

One way to improve individual patient participation might be to give patients information before they start their treatment. This can be done as group based patient education to reduce the resources needed. Furthermore, as there are waiting lists for treatment, such introduction seminars could be held while patients are waiting to use this time in a meaningful way.

The present study therefore aims at testing the effect of an introduction seminar for patients on waiting list in a community mental health centre.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients older than 18 years referred for out patient treatment who get a guarantee of starting treatment between 2 and 6 months will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

* patients with a guarantee of starting treatment in less than two months and
* patients who do not understand the consequences of taking part in the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Behavior and symptoms
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: knowledge on treatment preference
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: patient activation (coping)
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Client satisfaction
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 and 12 months
measure: Perceived participation
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 and 12 months
measure: Psychiatric Out-Patient Experiences
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 and 12 months
measure: Quality of Life
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 and 12 months
measure: motivation for treatment
timeFrame: Baseline, 1 and 4 months
measure: costs
timeFrame: Baseline, 1, 4 and 12 months
measure: Knowledge
timeFrame: Baseline, 1, 4 and 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Trondheim
country: Norway
facility: Tiller DPS
Study officials:
affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
name: Aslak Steinsbekk, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Koksvik JM, Linaker OM, Grawe RW, Bjorngaard JH, Lara-Cabrera ML. The effects of a pretreatment educational group programme on mental health treatment outcomes: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Aug 29;18(1):665. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3466-2.