Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment

NCT ID: NCT00153959

Last Updated: 2005-09-12

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Brief Summary

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The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of acute psychiatric day care to conventional inpatient care within a cross-national multi-site randomised controlled trial.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Depressive Disorders Schizophrenia Anxiety Disorders Personality Disorders Adjustment Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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acute psychiatric day care

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients must have presented with a mental disorder with current symptoms that had either led to at least a moderate disturbance in performance in more than one area of daily living or had jeopardized the residential, financial or occupational status of the patient or his family
* Treatments other than inpatient or day hospital care must have been inadequate or not sufficiently effective for the patient's current mental state

Exclusion Criteria

* Temporary admission for diagnostic purposes or for other reasons
* Under 18 or over 65 years
* Admission without consent of the patient (according to country-specific legal regulations)
* One-way journey to hospital longer than 60 minutes
* Suicidal risk
* Risk to others
* Degree of severity of the disorder requires measures restrictive of the patient's freedom on the day of admission, or a 1:1 supervision, or deems such probable
* Acute intoxication
* Main clinical diagnosis: addictive disorder
* Presence of a somatic disorder requiring inpatient care
* Direct transfer from a different hospital
* Homelessness
* Need for constant pick-up and delivery service
* Inability to give informed consent with respect to participating in the study
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Technische Universität Dresden

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Principal Investigators

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Thomas W. Kallert, Prof.Dr.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Psychiatry at Dresden University of Technology

Locations

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Department of Psychiatry, First Medical Faculty, Charles University of Prague

Prague, , Czechia

Site Status

Department of Psychiatry at Dresden University of Technology

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Site Status

Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw University of Medicine

Wroclaw, , Poland

Site Status

Michalovce Psychiatric Hospital

Michalovce, , Slovakia

Site Status

Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts' and The London School of Medicine

London, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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Czechia Germany Poland Slovakia United Kingdom

References

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Gibbon S, Khalifa NR, Cheung NH, Vollm BA, McCarthy L. Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Sep 3;9(9):CD007668. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007668.pub3.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32880104 (View on PubMed)

Kallert TW, Priebe S, McCabe R, Kiejna A, Rymaszewska J, Nawka P, Ocvar L, Raboch J, Starkova-Kalisova L, Koch R, Schutzwohl M. Are day hospitals effective for acutely ill psychiatric patients? A European multicenter randomized controlled trial. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007 Feb;68(2):278-87. doi: 10.4088/jcp.v68n0214.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 17335327 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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QLG4-CT-2000-01700

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id