Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment

Sponsor

Technische Universität Dresden (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT00153959

Collaborator

(none)

Locations

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Depressive Disorders Schizophrenia Anxiety Disorders Personality Disorders Adjustment Disorders	Behavioral: acute psychiatric day care	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Crossover Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Department of Psychiatry, First Medical Faculty, Charles University of Prague	Prague 2		Czech Republic	12801
2	Department of Psychiatry at Dresden University of Technology	Dresden	Saxony	Germany	01304
3	Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw University of Medicine	Wroclaw		Poland	50-367
4	Michalovce Psychiatric Hospital	Michalovce		Slovakia	07101
5	Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts' and The London School of Medicine	London		United Kingdom	E138 SP