Prehospital care of psychiatric emergencies as a factor influencing the doctor-patient relationship: a bicentric prospective patient survey.
- Conditions
- F00-F99Mental and behavioural disorders
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031842
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie III, Universitätsklinikum Ulm
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 135
Inclusion Criteria
Admission to the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III at the University Hospital of Ulm by an emergency physician or the ambulance service.
Informed consent in writing and verbally.
Exclusion Criteria
Age < 18 years.
Severity of the illness that makes it impossible to take part in the study.
Insufficient knowledge of the German language.
Prior to the start of the interview, lack of verbal and written consent for the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method How does the ongoing doctor-patient relationship in acute inpatient psychiatric treatment be affected by the emergency medical service's handling of the acute psychiatric patient?<br><br>The patient survey is conducted in a structured written form by the patient him/herself using a patient questionnaire.<br>The questionnaire is collected by the doctoral students after a period of time agreed individually with the patient. <br><br>The following information is collected:<br>Demographic data <br>Patient identification number<br>Age (date of birth)<br>Sex (gender) <br>Diagnosis<br>Case record characteristics<br>Interventions (free text analysis)<br>Medication<br>Mode of drug administration (intravenous, intraosseous, per os, nasal)<br>Initial diagnosis Emergency physician/paramedic<br>Current admission <br>Type of current admission (acute, police/paramedic/emergency, nursing)<br>Psychiatric history <br>Previous psychiatric treatment<br>Previous inpatient psychiatric admissions
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method How does the psychiatric diagnosis influence the pre-hospital behaviour of the emergency physician and the ambulance service towards the psychiatrically acutely ill patient in terms of patient communication and the use of restraints?