A Shared Decision Making Training for Inpatients With Schizophrenia

Technical University of Munich

Status: Completed

Conditions: Schizophrenia; Schizoaffective Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: cognitive training; Behavioral: patient training in shared decision making

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00885716

GIF2168-1764.1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients suffering from schizophrenia who attend the communication skills program engage more deeply in therapeutic reasoning and treatment decisions. This results in stronger preferences to participate, greater perceived involvement and better long term adherence compared to patients who do not attend the training.

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and female inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder according to ICD 10
• between 18 and 60 years of age are eligible for the study
• informed consent
• inpatients

Exclusion criteria

• poor German language skills

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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61 participants in 2 patient groups

communication skills training

Experimental group

Description:

group training in shared decision making.

Treatment:

Behavioral: patient training in shared decision making

cognitive training

Active Comparator group

Description:

standard group training of cognitive skills (Konzentrationstraining)

Treatment:

Behavioral: cognitive training