The Compliance Project Concerning People With Schizophrenia

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Schizophrenia
• Interventions: Behavioral: motivational interviewing; Other: The System-Orientated Intervention

• Registration Number: NCT00497848
• Lead Sponsor: Ministry of the Interior and Health, Denmark

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether individual and/ or system orientated interventions can help the problem of people with schizophrenia dropping out of their drug treatment

Detailed Description

50% of people with schizophrenia do not take the prescribed medication leading to repeating relapses with loss of social and cognitive skills.

The individual intervention is based on "Motivational Interviewing" by Miller and "Concordance Strategies" by R. Gray.It is a cognitive behavioral therapy.

The system orientated intervention is building on principles from quality assurance and clinical risk managing. It seeks to improve the quality in the medical treatment by use of standards, monitoring, audit and root cause analysis,and thereby trying to find weak points in the system and subsequently improve the common practice.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-05
• Status Verified: 2007-07
• Study First Submitted: 2007-07-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-07-06
• Study First Posted: 2007-07-09
• Primary Completion: 2009-07
• Study Completion: 2009-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-06-23
• Last Update Posted: 2011-06-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective psychosis
• 23 years or more
• Ethnic dane
• Living in the city of Odense.

Exclusion Criteria

• not subject to legal action

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
motivational interviewing	motivational interviewing	-
The System Orientated Intervention	The System-Orientated Intervention	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
compliance assessed on a compliance-scale	follow-up time 6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
assessment on a variety of scales concerning subjective well-being, GAF, PANSS-remission,CGI, side-effects.	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of psychiatry, Odense University Hospital; 🇩🇰 Odense, Denmark