Psychotraumatology in Somatic Medicine

Completed

• Conditions: Trauma, Psychological; Somatic

• Registration Number: NCT05297435
• Lead Sponsor: Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen

Brief Summary

Psychotraumatology is clinically highly relevant, especially in the medical-somatic disciplines. Despite progress in recent decades, the clinical care is still inadequate - with unfavorable health effects for affected patients. There are avoidable burdens for involved clinicians and the health care system as a whole, also in terms of costs. With this background, our long-term project combines different research levels. Besides clarifying the clinical phenomenon, it aims to examine 1) the influence of traumatization on the physician-patient interaction as well as 2) the current psychological stress of the patients. Furthermore, 3) moderating factors on the side of the physicians, such as professional experience on the physician-patient interaction will be examined.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-01-19
• Primary Completion: 2021-09-30
• Study Completion: 2021-12-31
• Status Verified: 2022-03
• Study First Submitted: 2022-03-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-03-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-03-25
• Study First Posted: 2022-03-28
• Last Update Posted: 2022-03-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• At least 18 years old
• Female patients of the preventive consultation of the gynecological clinic of the cantonal hospital St.Gallen

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe mental disorder (e.g. dissociative disorder)
• Insufficient knowledge of German

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of physician-patient relationship	Day 0	German version of the questionnaire "Patient Reactions Assessment Instruments" (PRA-D; Brenk-Franz et al., 2016)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Early traumatization	Day 0	German version of the questionnaire "Childhood Trauma Questionnaire" (CTQ, Bernstein und Fink, 1998)
Current traumatization	Day 0	German version of the questionnaire "Impact of Event Scale-Revised" (IES-R; Weiss \& Marmar, 1997)
Anxiety & Depression	Day 0	German version of the questionnaire "Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale" (HADS; Herrmann et al., 1995; Hermann-Lingen et al., 2011)
Dissociative symptoms	Day 0	German questionnaire on dissociative symptoms (FDS-20; Spitzer et al., 2021)
General distress	Day 0	German version of the questionnaire "distress thermometer" (BTH; Mehnert et al., 2006)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Katja Haemmerli Keller; 🇨🇭 St.Gallen, Switzerland