Destigmatizing Mental Illness
- Conditions
- psychiatric disorderssevere mental illness10039628
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON37949
- Lead Sponsor
- niversiteit Maastricht
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 140
People with a severe mental illness and in particular psychosis of the schizophrenic or affective type. It involves patients with a non-organic psychosis (according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)) and a longterm course of disease (>2 years) and invalidating handicaps in daily functioning. In people with other diagnoses, such as a depressive disorder without psychosis; a severe anxiety disorder; or autism, treatment must not have had the desired effect and the problems in functioning have to be explicit (GAF<40).
Age 18-65.
Sufficient command of Dutch.
Participants are competent to make their own informed consent (no juridical regime restricts their autonomy) and can voluntarily participate in the study. They are able to comprehend the scope of the study, as well as risks and limitations.
Not fulfilling inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Quality of life</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Care needs and social functioning</p><br>