The Compliance Project Concerning People With Schizophrenia

Ministry of the Interior and Health, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Schizophrenia

Treatments: Other: The System-Orientated Intervention; Behavioral: motivational interviewing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00497848

MIH, Denmark

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether individual and/ or system orientated interventions can help the problem of people with schizophrenia dropping out of their drug treatment

Full description

50% of people with schizophrenia do not take the prescribed medication leading to repeating relapses with loss of social and cognitive skills.

The individual intervention is based on "Motivational Interviewing" by Miller and "Concordance Strategies" by R. Gray.It is a cognitive behavioral therapy.

The system orientated intervention is building on principles from quality assurance and clinical risk managing. It seeks to improve the quality in the medical treatment by use of standards, monitoring, audit and root cause analysis,and thereby trying to find weak points in the system and subsequently improve the common practice.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 23+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective psychosis
• 23 years or more
• Ethnic dane
• Living in the city of Odense.

Exclusion criteria

• not subject to legal action

Trial design

70 participants in 2 patient groups

motivational interviewing

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: motivational interviewing

The System Orientated Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: The System-Orientated Intervention