Supporting Primary Care in Diagnosis and Choice of Treatment for Patients With Psychosocial Symptoms: SGEPsyScan.
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Mental Disorders
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University Medical Center
- Enrollment
- 336
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- The rate of patients who achieve a successful decrease in the level of psychosocial symptoms as measured with the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) after 12 months. A successful treatment result is defined as a decrease in the SCL-90 patient score of 50%.
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 10 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Although effective treatments for psychosocial symptoms and disorders are available, patients frequently do not receive the most appropriate and effective treatment for their symptoms because of inappropriate and unstructured diagnostics of psychosocial symptoms in general practice. The hypothesis is that by using the intervention SGE-PsyScan the clinical symptoms of patients can be assessed more uniformly and earlier as opposed to the GPs' assessment in usual care. As a result, patients are supposed to start earlier with a treatment that fits the type and severity of their symptoms better.
The patients will be randomly assigned to either receive the SGE-PsyScan or usual care.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients with (suspected) psychosocial symptoms
- •Aged 18 years or older and capacitated
- •Adequate understanding of Dutch language
- •Able to perform SGE-PsyScan at home, individually
Exclusion Criteria
- •Clear and treatable somatic causes of symptoms
- •Acute distress/danger
- •No written informed consent
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
The rate of patients who achieve a successful decrease in the level of psychosocial symptoms as measured with the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) after 12 months. A successful treatment result is defined as a decrease in the SCL-90 patient score of 50%.
Time Frame: 12 months
Secondary Outcomes
- The level of psychosocial symptoms of patients as measured with the SCL-90(6 months)
- Health technology assessment(12 months)
- Quality of life will be measured using the EuroQol-5Dimensions-5Levels (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire(12 months)
- The extent of patient satisfaction with the care they receive, will be measured using the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC)(12 months)
- Electronic medical records parameters(12 months)