Mentalizing Education in a Psychiatric Out-patient Clinic

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Mental Health Education
• Interventions: Behavioral: Mentalizing course

• Registration Number: NCT05917535
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital of North Norway

Brief Summary

Mentalization-based Mental Health Education in a naturalistic patient population from a psychiatric out-patient clinic in North Norway: A randomized controlled study

Detailed Description

Half of an unselecected waiting list group of patients (randomized) from a psychiatric out-patient clinic are offered a 6 hour mental health education course abour mentalizing. 1 year follow up period. Primary outcome variable is use of hospital services. Secondary outcome variables are questionnaire scores.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2023-03
• Study Start: 2023-03-01
• Study First Submitted: 2023-03-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-06-23
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-06-23
• Study First Posted: 2023-06-26
• Last Update Posted: 2023-06-26
• Primary Completion: 2024-06-30
• Study Completion: 2024-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 256

Inclusion Criteria

• all norwegian speaking patients referred to the outpatient clinic

Exclusion Criteria

• none

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	Mentalizing course	Patients offered mentalizing course supplemental to treatment as usual

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Hospital service us	1year	Contact days (policlinic, inpatient ward and emergency team)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
3 item wellbeing questionnaire	6 month	Each question is answered on a separate 0-9 point scale. Higher scores means better outcome.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital North Norway; 🇳🇴 Harstad, Norway