Current Trend of Epidemiology of Psychiatric Emergency and the Stress of Duty Psychiatric Resident

NCT ID: NCT03539471

Last Updated: 2018-05-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 16 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-11-01
• Study Completion Date: 2019-12-01

Brief Summary

Agitation, paranoia, and suicide risk of the psychiatric patients made them difficult to be managed when they visited medical emergency services. The prolonged waiting time at medical emergency services and the stigmatization of psychiatric medicine also made the psychiatric emergency services full of challenges. However, in recent years, the random killings, celebrity suicide and other major social events attracted much attention to the emergency psychiatry.

Following the establishment of the National Health Insurance, the law of mandatory admission, and the prevalence change of all psychiatric diseases, we are now dealing with totally different types of emergent psychiatric conditions, i.e., depression and suicide. However, the real epidemiological data need to be updated. Psychiatric emergency is one of the entrances of the psychiatric network. A comprehensive review of the psychiatric emergency would be needed for the base of further research.

This study is aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric diagnosis of patients who came to Emergency Department of National Taiwan University Hospital and needed a psychiatric consultation. The epidemiological data will be compared to those collected 30 years ago in the same hospital to examine the 30-year trend. On the other hand, the visiting time and the staying time will be analyzed. The stress of on-duty and the contributing factors will be assessed by a 2-hour in-depth interview with psychiatric residents.

Conditions

Emergent Psychiatric, Consultation, Residentship

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

psychiatric resident in NTUH

interview, Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

interview of the residents about 15-20 minutes, then use Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire

Interventions

interview, Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire

interview of the residents about 15-20 minutes, then use Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire

Intervention Type: DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Psychiatric resident in NTUH

Exclusion Criteria

• Major psychiatric illness

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Taiwan University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

Other Identifiers

201708099RIND

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id