Impact of Burden in Caregivers of Patients Hospitalized for a Psychotic Episode: a Multicenter Study

Completed

• Conditions: The Objective of Our Study is to Assess and Take Into Account Early on the Suffering of Family Members
• Interventions: Other: clinical assessment

• Registration Number: NCT04423809
• Lead Sponsor: Centre hospitalier de Ville-Evrard, France

Brief Summary

Family support is a positive predictor for psychiatric patients. For example, since the 1980s, it has been shown that family psychoeducation improves patient adherence to care and statistically decreases patient relapse and hospitalization rates by half, resulting in lower care costs. Yet, the stress of hospitalizing a patient, seeing the feelings of shame or guilt of caregiver and the impact on their quality of life are rarely taken into account by caregivers during the first weeks hospitalization in a patient's psychiatry.

Barrelet emphasizes the importance of organizing the meeting in the first hours of hospitalization with the family in order to strengthen the alliance, to improve communication.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-06-10
• Primary Completion: 2018-06-08
• Study Completion: 2020-03-27
• Status Verified: 2020-06
• Study First Submitted: 2020-06-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-06-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-06-05
• Study First Posted: 2020-06-09
• Last Update Posted: 2020-06-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 161

Inclusion Criteria

• Family members or relatives

• Over 18 years

• Having a relative

  • First hospitalized in psychiatry or hospitalized in psychiatry within 5 years
  • Over 18 years of age
  • Psychotic episode
  • Having been informed of their participation in this study

• In regular contact with the patient prior to hospitalization, at least 4 hours per week.

• French language

• Signed written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

-Psychiatric pathology of another family member than the hospitalized.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
caregivers of adult patients hospitalized in psychiatry	clinical assessment	a face-to-face interview with a nurse and self-assessment scales.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale	at patient admission	is a simple tool for assessing depressive symptomatology for the general population

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Zarit burden inventory	at patient admission	to assess burden
Short form 36	at patient admission	To assess quality of life
Semi-directional interview	At patient admission	It consists of five items: subjective feeling, quality of life, social life, mood of the caregiver.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Unité de recherche clinique; 🇫🇷 Neuilly Sur Marne, Île De France, France