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Couples Coping With Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions

NCT01912157 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2018-12-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Handling of complex health situations (as defined by multimorbidity) in partnership: communication between romantic partners; subjective illness perception; coping with stressful experiences due to multimorbidity.

Intervention : Expressive Writing about subjective illness perception vs. Writing about individual Time-Management Primary Endpoint: subjective Health (e.g. SF 12 questionnaire) Secondary Endpoints: Psychosocial Adjustments (Depression, somatic symptoms, quality of partnership and others)

Conditions

  • Chronic Disease
  • Illness Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expressive Writing

The intervention consists in 3 self-applied solitary written disclosure sessions (expressive writing)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Zurich

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lukas Zimmerli, MD · University Hospital Zurich, Internal Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2017-04-01
Completion
2018-12-28

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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