The Compliance Project Concerning People With Schizophrenia
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia
- 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
- Diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective psychosis
- 23 years or more
- Ethnic dane
- Living in the city of Odense.
- not subject to legal action
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- 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
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Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Department of psychiatry, Odense University Hospital
🇩🇰Odense, Denmark
Department of psychiatry, Odense University Hospital🇩🇰Odense, Denmark