Improving feedback: how expected treatment response information helps therapists
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Psychiatric patientsMental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN11638237
- Lead Sponsor
- GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 511
Inclusion Criteria
1. Age between 18 to 65 years old
2. Sufficient mastery of the Dutch language in reading and speaking
Exclusion Criteria
1. Psychotic disorder
2. Current crisis
3. High risk of decompensation
4. Severe manic episode
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient’s progress measured using the Outcome Questionnaire-45 item version (OQ-45), Dutch version, measured weekly for up to 15 sessions or a maximum of 1 year
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Therapist expectations of treatment outcome measured using a self-constructed instrument at sessions 1, 5, 10 and 15<br>2. Therapists' use of the progress feedback tool measured using the Assessment for Signal Clients (ASC) questionnaire at sessions 5, 10, 15<br>3. Patients' treatment dropout, defined as the patient ending treatment before the therapist's recommendation, measured using data registered in the electronic patient file as treatment ended on the initiative of the patient by the end of the study<br>4. Patients' study dropout, defined as patients discontinuing participation in the study, measured using data registered in the trial's participants follow system by the research team before ending treatment or reaching 15 sessions of treatment