From inpatient to outpatient mental health care: a randomised controlled feasibility trial of a care transition intervention for patients with depression and anxiety

Not Applicable

Conditions: F00-F99
Mental and behavioural disorders

Registration Number: DRKS00029381

Lead Sponsor: niversitätsklinikum Heidelberg Klinik für Allgemeine Innere Medizin und Psychosomatik

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Complete

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 59

Inclusion Criteria

recommendation by the treating ward mental health specialists to start an outpatient psychosocial follow-up treatment
- being treated for at least a moderate depressive and/or anxiety disorder
- Informed Consent documented in writing
- ability to give consent
- completed 18th year of life

Exclusion Criteria

- already planned resumption of outpatient psychotherapy after the inpatient stay
- acute psychotic symptoms, e.g. persecutory delusions and/or thought insertion
- dementia and/or severe cognitive impairment
- significant hearing and/or visual impairment
- pregnancy in the 2nd or 3rd trimester
- insufficient German language skills

Study & Design

Study Type: interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The study evaluates the feasibility of the following aspects: sufficiency and efficiency of recruitment strategies for intervention and control group, recruitment and attrition rates for intervention and control group, patient acceptance of outcome measurements, feasibility of study procedures (e.g. patient acceptance of randomisation and outcome measurements), feasibility of intervention procedures (including the necessary documentation, implementation loyalty, patient acceptance of video consultations, patient safety).<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
o secondary endpoint is defined in the conventional sense. In addition to feasibility, the following endpoints are evaluated:<br>- Mental symptom burden (Patient Health Questionnaire Anxiety and Depression Scale (PHQ-ADS) for Depression and for anxiety disorders, Somatic Symptom Disorder–B Criteria Scale (SSD-12) for Somatic Symptom Disorder)<br>- Recovery (Recovery Assessment Scale, RAS-G)<br>- Quality of life (SF-12)<br>- health economic parameters (Questionnaire for the Assessment of Medical and non Medical Resource Utilisation in Mental Disorders, FIMPsy)