Effect of Experience Sharing and Mutual Assistance on Insight and Recovery During the First Psychotic Episode (DIPEM)

Centre hospitalier de Ville-Evrard, France

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Psychotic Episode

Treatments: Other: Semi-directional interviews; Other: session of mutual assistance with a mediator psychologist; Other: Insight Scale; Other: routine care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06263933

2023-A01804-41

Details and patient eligibility

About

Controlled, prospective, qualitative and quantitative trial. The goal of this trial is to evaluate the mutual assistance early intervention device efficacy and its impact on insight and personal recovery of participants living with a first psychotic episode. This intervention lasts 5 days with 1 session per day of 1 hour 30 minutes. Three evaluations, before the intervention, after intervention and 1 month after the hospitalization's end.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Man or woman between 18 and 40 years old
• First psychotic episode under the guidance of a doctor
• Brief psycotic trouble (SM-V)
• Presenting a first psychiatry hospitalization (all modalities hospitalizations combined)
• Fluent in French language (read and written)
• Patient affiliated to a social protection system or beneficiary of Medical Aid of State
• Patient having signed informed consent for his participation in the protocol

Exclusion criteria

• Patients whose clinical condition does not allow them to participate in research
• Patients placed in isolation rooms during the intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Patients are followed in routine care.

Treatment:

Other: Semi-directional interviews

Other: Insight Scale

Other: routine care

DIPEM group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients have 5 session of mutual assistance with a mediator psychologist, during five days, with 1 session per day. Each session lasts 1h30, with 45 min for atelier, 15 min for pause and 30 min about collective discussion.

Treatment:

Other: Semi-directional interviews

Other: session of mutual assistance with a mediator psychologist

Other: Insight Scale