Couples Coping With Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions
- Conditions
- Illness BehaviorChronic Disease
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Expressive Writing
- Registration Number
- NCT01912157
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Zurich
- Brief Summary
Handling of complex health situations (as defined by multimorbidity) in partnership: communication between romantic partners; subjective illness perception; coping with stressful experiences due to multimorbidity.
Intervention : Expressive Writing about subjective illness perception vs. Writing about individual Time-Management Primary Endpoint: subjective Health (e.g. SF 12 questionnaire) Secondary Endpoints: Psychosocial Adjustments (Depression, somatic symptoms, quality of partnership and others)
- Detailed Description
Coping in complex health situations (as defined by multimorbidity) and the role of relationship processes for psycho-social adaption: The study investigates interpersonal emotion regulation, disclosure, and illness perceptions in couples with a multimorbid patient. The intervention consists in 3 self-applied solitary written disclosure sessions (expressive writing), the control condition are 3 sessions writing about individual time-management (placebo).
Primary endpoint: subjective health (SF 12 questionnaire) Secondary endpoint: psychosocial adjustments (depression, positive and negative affect, somatic symptoms, adjustment disorder, marital satisfaction, sleep quality)
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 22
Not provided
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description No Intervention Expressive Writing The control condition are 3 sessions writing about individual time-management (placebo). Expressive Writing Expressive Writing The intervention consists in 3 self-applied solitary written disclosure sessions (expressive writing).
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Subjective health (SF-12) 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Psychosocial adjustments 3 months depression, positive and negative affect, somatic symptoms, adjustment disorder, marital satisfaction, sleep quality
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University Hospital Zurich, Internal Medicine
🇨ðŸ‡Zurich, ZH, Switzerland