Mentalizing Education in a Psychiatric Out-patient Clinic

University Hospital of North Norway

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Mental Health Education

Treatments: Behavioral: Mentalizing course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05917535

DPSHA-UNN Mz Study

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mentalization-based Mental Health Education in a naturalistic patient population from a psychiatric out-patient clinic in North Norway: A randomized controlled study

Full description

Half of an unselecected waiting list group of patients (randomized) from a psychiatric out-patient clinic are offered a 6 hour mental health education course abour mentalizing. 1 year follow up period. Primary outcome variable is use of hospital services. Secondary outcome variables are questionnaire scores.

Enrollment: 256 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all norwegian speaking patients referred to the outpatient clinic

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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256 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients offered mentalizing course supplemental to treatment as usual

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mentalizing course

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group - treatment as usual.