Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of ISTDP: A Quasi Experimental Study
NCT ID: NCT01924715
Last Updated: 2013-08-16
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
1082 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2008-01-31
2009-03-31
Brief Summary
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Design: A quasi-experimental design was employed in which pre and post healthcare cost and usage data were extracted for all ISTDP treated cases from 1999 to 2008 and compared to parallel measures of a control group of cases referred but never treated.
Detailed Description
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Objective: To evaluate whether or not cases treated with Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) facilitate healthcare cost reduction, whether any observed reduction is greater than that of a control group and whether any such gains would be maintained in follow up.
Design: A quasi-experimental design was employed in which pre and post healthcare cost and usage data were extracted for all ISTDP treated cases from 1999 to 2008 and compared to parallel measures of a control group of cases referred but never treated.
Setting: Treatments were provided at an urban University based psychotherapy service.
Participants: All cases from the province of Nova Scotia treated within the research time frame were included. 890 patients were included with a very broad range of psychiatric disorders including anxiety, mood, somatoform, personality and psychotic disorders. 192 referred but never see cases served as non randomized controls.
Intervention(s): ISTDP is an emotionally focused form of brief psychotherapy which has supportive, cognitive, experiential and primarily psychodynamic elements. In this setting the average length of treatment was 7.3 sessions and cost an estimated $500 dollars per treatment course.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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CASE_CONTROL
RETROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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ISTDP
Patients provided Intensive Short term Dynamic Psychotherapy
ISTDP
An emotion focused brief psychotherapy format.
Control Group
Patients referred for ISTDP but never seen for any reason
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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ISTDP
An emotion focused brief psychotherapy format.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
12 Years
90 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Nova Scotia Health Authority
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Allan A Abbass, MD, FRCPC
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Nova Scotia Health Authority
Locations
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Capital Health
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Countries
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References
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Abbass A, Kisely S, Rasic D, Town JM, Johansson R. Long-term healthcare cost reduction with Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy in a tertiary psychiatric service. J Psychiatr Res. 2015 May;64:114-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2015.03.001. Epub 2015 Mar 25.
Other Identifiers
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AA003
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id