Effects of Psychoeducation of Relatives to Patients With Serious Mental Illness.
Information source: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on August 06, 2007
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Condition(s) targeted: Relatives to Patients With Serious Mental Illness
Intervention: Psychoeducation (Behavioral)
Phase: N/A
Status: Recruiting
Sponsored by: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Official(s) and/or principal investigator(s):
Olav M Linaker, MD Professor, Principal Investigator, Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Overall contact:
Olav Linaker, MD Professor, Email: olav.linaker@ntnu.no
Summary
The propose of this study is to determine the effects of psychoeducation for relatives to patients with serious mental illness.
Clinical Details
Official title:
Effects of Psychoeducation of Relatives to Patients With Serious Mental Illness.
Study design: Interventional, Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study
Primary outcome: ECI (Experience of Caregiving Inventory)(Smuckler et al,1994)COOP/WONCA (Bowling, 1995) Selection of questions from COPE (Carver et al. 1989) Evaluation-questions
Detailed description:
The main aim of the study is to compare the effects of group-psychoeducation for relatives to patients with serious mental illness with a waiting-list control-group. The main hypothesis is whether psychoeducation in groups has effects on the stress-experience and coping-style in the relatives. The relatives will recieve group education in 6 weekly sessions. We will measure stress-experience, coping-style and the relatives health- condition before the sessions, after the sessions and at one year follow-up.
Eligibility
Minimum age: 18 Years.
Maximum age: 70 Years.
Gender(s): Both.
Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Relatives to patiens having a psychotic or bipolar disorder
- Age 18-70
- good norwegian language skills
- do consent to participate
- the patient consent their relatives to participate
Exclusion Criteria:
-
Locations and Contacts
Olav Linaker, MD Professor, Email: olav.linaker@ntnu.no
Østmarka Psychiatric Department, St.Olavs hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway; Recruiting
Olav Linaker, MD Professor, Email: olav.linaker@ntnu.no
Olav M Linaker, MD Professor, Principal Investigator
Additional Information
Starting date:
April 2005
Ending date: January 2007
Last updated: July 24, 2006
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