Effects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Primary Health Care (ACTPrimary)

University Hospital, Linkoeping

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medical Certificates for Sick Leave and Drug Prescriptions

Treatments: Other: Control, no intervention; Behavioral: Education with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03737019

2018/323-32

Details and patient eligibility

About

How does education of health personnel with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy affect the extent of medical certificates of sick leave and drug prescriptions in primary health care centers in Kalmar compared with similar centers in Jönköping in which the personnel do not get such therapy?

Full description

Five primary health care centers in the County Council of Jönköping who do not get education according to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) serve as controls. Six primary health care centers in County Council of Kalmar, with the same total number of listed patients (about 45 000 in total per County Council) in their areas undergo group education according to ACT. Data on medical certificates of sick leave and drug prescriptions are taken from registries (this is routine in primary health care in Sweden) at baseline and after 6, 12 and 24 months in both regions. The personnel at both centers also fill out questionnaires about their own quality of life at baseline and after 12 months. The investigators also plan to interview about 20 subjects on these matters.

Enrollment: 700 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• over 18 years of age
• working at the health care center

Exclusion criteria

• age less than 18 years
• do not work at the Health care center

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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700 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

ACT in County Council of Kalmar

Experimental group

Description:

Group education with ACT in six primary health care centers in County Council of Kalmar

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Control health care centers of County Council of Jönköping

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Five primary health care centers of County Council of Jönköping that do not get education.

Treatment:

Other: Control, no intervention