Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Depressive Disorders; Schizophrenia; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders; Adjustment Disorders

• Registration Number: NCT00153959
• Lead Sponsor: Technische Universität Dresden

Brief Summary

The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of acute psychiatric day care to conventional inpatient care within a cross-national multi-site randomised controlled trial.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2005-09
• Study First Submitted: 2005-09-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2005-09-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2005-09-07
• Study First Posted: 2005-09-12
• Last Update Posted: 2005-09-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients must have presented with a mental disorder with current symptoms that had either led to at least a moderate disturbance in performance in more than one area of daily living or had jeopardized the residential, financial or occupational status of the patient or his family
• Treatments other than inpatient or day hospital care must have been inadequate or not sufficiently effective for the patient's current mental state

Exclusion Criteria

• Temporary admission for diagnostic purposes or for other reasons
• Under 18 or over 65 years
• Admission without consent of the patient (according to country-specific legal regulations)
• One-way journey to hospital longer than 60 minutes
• Suicidal risk
• Risk to others
• Degree of severity of the disorder requires measures restrictive of the patient's freedom on the day of admission, or a 1:1 supervision, or deems such probable
• Acute intoxication
• Main clinical diagnosis: addictive disorder
• Presence of a somatic disorder requiring inpatient care
• Direct transfer from a different hospital
• Homelessness
• Need for constant pick-up and delivery service
• Inability to give informed consent with respect to participating in the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Trial Locations

Locations (5)

Department of Psychiatry at Dresden University of Technology; 🇩🇪 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw University of Medicine; 🇵🇱 Wroclaw, Poland

Michalovce Psychiatric Hospital; 🇸🇰 Michalovce, Slovakia

Department of Psychiatry, First Medical Faculty, Charles University of Prague; 🇨🇿 Prague 2, Czech Republic

Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts' and The London School of Medicine; 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom