Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment

Technische Universität Dresden

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depressive Disorders; Adjustment Disorders; Schizophrenia; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: acute psychiatric day care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00153959

QLG4-CT-2000-01700

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of acute psychiatric day care to conventional inpatient care within a cross-national multi-site randomised controlled trial.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients must have presented with a mental disorder with current symptoms that had either led to at least a moderate disturbance in performance in more than one area of daily living or had jeopardized the residential, financial or occupational status of the patient or his family
• Treatments other than inpatient or day hospital care must have been inadequate or not sufficiently effective for the patient's current mental state

Exclusion criteria

• Temporary admission for diagnostic purposes or for other reasons
• Under 18 or over 65 years
• Admission without consent of the patient (according to country-specific legal regulations)
• One-way journey to hospital longer than 60 minutes
• Suicidal risk
• Risk to others
• Degree of severity of the disorder requires measures restrictive of the patient's freedom on the day of admission, or a 1:1 supervision, or deems such probable
• Acute intoxication
• Main clinical diagnosis: addictive disorder
• Presence of a somatic disorder requiring inpatient care
• Direct transfer from a different hospital
• Homelessness
• Need for constant pick-up and delivery service
• Inability to give informed consent with respect to participating in the study