psychological distress (symptoms of depression and anxiety) extent of impairment caused by physical and psychological symptoms expectations of group psychotherapy willingness to participate in group psychotherapy F00-F99
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Intervention group (n = 100), people who are on the waiting list for guideline psychotherapy, who are offered participation in four sessions of group psychotherapeutic primary care
Group 2: C
Sponsors
Psychotherapeutische Praxis Ehrenberg und Kollegen
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: People who are on the waiting list for guideline psychotherapy in the outpatient clinic Ehrenberg and colleagues in Wolfsburg (Germany). After an initial psychotherapeutic consultation (screening), all people on the waiting list were diagnosed with at least one mental disorder according to ICD-10 or a suspected diagnosis with an indicatin for outpatient psychotherapy. The patients provied a written informed consent to use their data for research purposes.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Lack of written informed consent to use the patient's data for research purposes.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of psychological symptoms and associated impairments of patients - Two assessments (pre, post) in the intervention and control group four weeks apart. In the intervention group, the pre-assessment takes place before the start of the first session of the basic group psychotherapeutic care and the post assessment takes place after the fourth session. In the control group, participants also fill out the questionnaires twice, four weeks apart. - In the intervention group, the outcome measures are additionally collected before the second and third sessions of the basic group psychotherapeutic care. Measures (self-report questionnaires) - Depression scale of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9; Kroenke et al., 2001) to assess symptoms of depression - Generalized Anxiety Questionnaires (GAD-7; Spitzer et al., 2006) to assess symptoms of depression - Symptom-Checklist-90®-Standard (SCL-90®-S, Franke, 2014) to assess the extent of impairment caused by physical and psychological symptoms | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Expectations of group psychotherapy and willingness to participate in group psychotherapy recorded using the Group Selection Questionnaire (GSQ, Löffler et al., 2007) | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactAnn-Katrin Job
Universität Kassel, Institut für Psychologie, Fachbereich Klinische Psychologie II
Outcome results
None listed