A Brief Case Management Intervention for People Involuntarily Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital

NCT ID: NCT06320457

Last Updated: 2025-04-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 26 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-04-15
• Study Completion Date: 2025-01-21

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess whether a brief case management intervention aimed at promoting personal recovery and reducing the negative effects of coercion among people involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital would be well accepted by them, practically feasible and useful. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Is the case management intervention acceptable and feasible?
• What are the preliminary effects of the case management intervention on patients' personal recovery and its sub-dimensions, as well as on their level of perceived coercion and their global satisfaction with hospital care?

Participants will be asked to take part in:

• the five sessions of the case management intervention;
• two evaluation sessions (pre and post-intervention);
• a final in-depth semi-structured interview (optional).

Conditions

Psychiatric Disorder; Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention group

Brief case management intervention group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Brief case management intervention

Intervention Type: OTHER

The brief case management intervention aims to support patients during the difficult phase of involuntary hospitalisation and reduce the impact of this short-term event on their long-term recovery process. The intervention starts during the hospital stay, at the latest one week after admission, and lasts for a maximum of one month after discharge. The intervention consists of five sessions, the order of which may vary according to the specific needs of the patient:

1. Personal account of involuntary hospitalisation and its consequences

2. Presentation of the personal recovery model and the tools to promote it and prevent coercion

3. Introduction to the personal recovery plan

4. Network meeting and discussion on "dignity of risk"

5. Personal recovery plan

Interventions

Brief case management intervention

The brief case management intervention aims to support patients during the difficult phase of involuntary hospitalisation and reduce the impact of this short-term event on their long-term recovery process. The intervention starts during the hospital stay, at the latest one week after admission, and lasts for a maximum of one month after discharge. The intervention consists of five sessions, the order of which may vary according to the specific needs of the patient:

1. Personal account of involuntary hospitalisation and its consequences

2. Presentation of the personal recovery model and the tools to promote it and prevent coercion

3. Introduction to the personal recovery plan

4. Network meeting and discussion on "dignity of risk"

5. Personal recovery plan

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• To have been involuntarily admitted by a medical doctor
• To be aged between 18 and 65 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients unable to provide written consent due to a lack of discernment
• Patients unable to speak French well enough to participate in the study without the help of an interpreter

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

Sponsors

University of Lausanne Hospitals

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Stéphane Morandi

Deputy Head of the Community Psychiatry Service, PD & MER

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Charles Bonsack

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CHUV

Locations

Lausanne University Hospital

Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Countries

Switzerland

Other Identifiers

2024-00095

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id