A Shared Decision-making Training for Inpatients With Schizophrenia

NCT ID: NCT02349880

Last Updated: 2018-04-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 264 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2011-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2015-03-31

Brief Summary

"Shared decision-making" is being promoted as a promising approach for engaging patients with schizophrenia in medical decisions and improving satisfaction and adherence.

To implement shared decision-making, both physicians and patients should commit to it and engage in a mutual decision process. Most research, however, has addressed interventions that either focus on the doctors' side (e.g. "communication skills") or on informing patients about treatment options (e.g. "decision aids"). These approaches have been shown to be feasible in clinical practice but had no strong effects on treatment patterns or adherence, possibly because they were insufficient to motivate and enable patients to engage actively in decision-making. Moreover, these interventions still rely on the doctor's willingness to share decisions, which has been shown to vary considerably.

To overcome these limitations and since many patients do not feel competent to participate in decision-making we developed an intervention that focuses on patients' communicative competencies. this intervention, a five session group-training, will be implemented for inpatients suffering from schizophrenia.

Conditions

Schizophrenia; Schizo-affective Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

control

5 hour cognitive training

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

shared decision making training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

intervention

5 hour shared decision making training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

shared decision making training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interventions

shared decision making training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age 18-65
• icd diagnosis F2
• sufficient German language skills

Exclusion Criteria

• debility

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Technical University of Munich

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Johannes Hamann

PI

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

SDM-training

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id