Peer Support for Severe Mental Disorders (PEER)

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Status: Completed

Conditions: Major Depression; Borderline Personality Disorder; Psychosis; Bipolar Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: peer support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02276469

SC 0748/006

Psychenet Teilprojekt 5 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine wether peer support is effective for the treatment of people with severe mental illness.

Full description

A randomized controlled multi center trial is conducted, where patients receive usual care in the control group and usual care with additional peer support for 6 month in the intervention group. Psychosocial outcome criteria are collected pre intervention, after 6 month intervention and at one year follow up. Days till hospitalization and days spent in hospital are collected for one year before recruitment and one year after recruitment.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia, unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorder

Exclusion criteria

• primary clinical diagnosis of addiction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

peer support

Experimental group

Description:

peer support is delivered on individual basis for half a year, the frequency depends on the patients requirement, but at least 3 sessions has to occur

Treatment:

Behavioral: peer support

usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

usual care was delivered to the patients