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Couples Coping With Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Illness Behavior
Chronic 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
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

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Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
No InterventionExpressive WritingThe control condition are 3 sessions writing about individual time-management (placebo).
Expressive WritingExpressive WritingThe intervention consists in 3 self-applied solitary written disclosure sessions (expressive writing).
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Subjective health (SF-12)3 months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Psychosocial adjustments3 months

depression, positive and negative affect, somatic symptoms, adjustment disorder, marital satisfaction, sleep quality

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital Zurich, Internal Medicine

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Zurich, ZH, Switzerland

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