Helping urgent care users cope with distress about physical complaints

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Specialty: Mental Health, Primary sub-specialty: Anxiety; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Anxiety

• Registration Number: ISRCTN66142865
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Nottingham

Brief Summary

2016 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27703758/ (added 05/10/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-11-16
• Study Completion: 2017-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 144

Inclusion Criteria

1. = 2 consultations, referrals or hospital admissions with any provider of unscheduled or emergency care (including urgent same day appointment at their general practice) in last 12 months for symptoms such as cardiac, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal or genitourinary problems not attributed to identified pathology
2. Scores above the threshold for severe health anxiety of 18 or more on the 14 item short form of the Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI)
3. Age 18 years and over
4. Sufficient understanding of English (spoken and written) to enable full engagement in the intervention
5. Able and willing to give oral and written informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

1. Pathological medical condition requiring further assessment or acute management, or pregnancy
2. Other severe mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe major depressive episode, eating disorder) ascertained by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM­IV Disorders (SCID, Spitzer et al., 2002) or anyone at immediate risk of harm to themselves or other people through their mental state
3. Organic mental disorder (dementia, delirium, substance use disorder, organic mood disorder)
4. Those already receiving specialist mental health intervention, including psychological treatment as part of specialist medical care e.g. pain clinic

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health anxiety is measured using the short form 14 item Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI) at baseline and 6 months.