Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment

This study has been completed.
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Dresden University of Technology
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00153959
First received: September 7, 2005
Last updated: NA
Last verified: September 2005
History: No changes posted

September 7, 2005
September 7, 2005
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Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment
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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.

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Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Open Label
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Personality Disorders
  • Adjustment Disorders
Behavioral: acute psychiatric day care
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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
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18 Years to 65 Years
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Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
Czech Republic,   Germany,   Poland,   Slovakia,   United Kingdom
 
NCT00153959
QLG4-CT-2000-01700
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Dresden University of Technology
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Principal Investigator: Thomas W. Kallert, Prof.Dr. Department of Psychiatry at Dresden University of Technology
Dresden University of Technology
September 2005

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