Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment

NCT00153959 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: QLG4-CT-2000-01700
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 5 countries
• Sites: 5

Brief Summary

The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of acute psychiatric day care to conventional inpatient care within a cross-national multi-site randomised controlled trial.

Conditions

Depressive Disorders; Schizophrenia; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders; Adjustment Disorders

Interventions

acute psychiatric day care BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Patients must have presented with a mental disorder with current symptoms that had either led to at least a moderate disturbance in performance in more than one area of daily living or had jeopardized the residential, financial or occupational status of the patient or his family
• Treatments other than inpatient or day hospital care must have been inadequate or not sufficiently effective for the patient's current mental state

You may not qualify if:

• Temporary admission for diagnostic purposes or for other reasons
• Under 18 or over 65 years
• Admission without consent of the patient (according to country-specific legal regulations)
• One-way journey to hospital longer than 60 minutes
• Suicidal risk
• Risk to others
• Degree of severity of the disorder requires measures restrictive of the patient's freedom on the day of admission, or a 1:1 supervision, or deems such probable
• Acute intoxication
• Main clinical diagnosis: addictive disorder
• Presence of a somatic disorder requiring inpatient care
• Direct transfer from a different hospital
• Homelessness
• Need for constant pick-up and delivery service
• Inability to give informed consent with respect to participating in the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Technische Universität Dresden: lead

Study Sites (5)

Department of Psychiatry, First Medical Faculty, Charles University of Prague

Prague, 12801, Czechia

Location

Department of Psychiatry at Dresden University of Technology

Dresden, Saxony, 01304, Germany

Location

Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw University of Medicine

Wroclaw, 50-367, Poland

Location

Michalovce Psychiatric Hospital

Michalovce, 07101, Slovakia

Location

Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts' and The London School of Medicine

London, E138 SP, United Kingdom

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Gibbon S, Khalifa NR, Cheung NH, Vollm BA, McCarthy L. Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Sep 3;9(9):CD007668. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007668.pub3.

  PMID: 32880104 DERIVED

• Kallert TW, Priebe S, McCabe R, Kiejna A, Rymaszewska J, Nawka P, Ocvar L, Raboch J, Starkova-Kalisova L, Koch R, Schutzwohl M. Are day hospitals effective for acutely ill psychiatric patients? A European multicenter randomized controlled trial. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007 Feb;68(2):278-87. doi: 10.4088/jcp.v68n0214.

  PMID: 17335327 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depressive Disorder; Schizophrenia; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders; Adjustment Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mood Disorders; Mental Disorders; Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders; Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders

Study Officials

• Thomas W. Kallert, Prof.Dr.

  Department of Psychiatry at Dresden University of Technology

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 7, 2005
• First Posted: September 12, 2005
• Last Updated: September 12, 2005

Record last verified: 2005-09

Locations

DE (1); SL (1); GB (1); PL (1); CZ (1)