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

Centre hospitalier de Ville-Evrard, France

Status: Completed

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

Treatments: Other: clinical assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04423809

2014-A01499-38

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 161 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

161 participants in 1 patient group

caregivers of adult patients hospitalized in psychiatry

Description:

a face-to-face interview with a nurse and self-assessment scales.

Treatment:

Other: clinical assessment