Psychiatric patients Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
The psychiatric patients who applied for outpatient individual psychiatric treatment were randomly assigned, with a simple randomization method using a software program to assign patients to one of th
Sponsors
GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Age between 18 to 65 years old 2. Sufficient mastery of the Dutch language in reading and speaking
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Psychotic disorder 2. Current crisis 3. High risk of decompensation 4. Severe manic episode
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patient’s progress measured using the Outcome Questionnaire-45 item version (OQ-45), Dutch version, measured weekly for up to 15 sessions or a maximum of 1 year | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Therapist expectations of treatment outcome measured using a self-constructed instrument at sessions 1, 5, 10 and 15 2. Therapists' use of the progress feedback tool measured using the Assessment for Signal Clients (ASC) questionnaire at sessions 5, 10, 15 3. Patients' treatment dropout, defined as the patient ending treatment before the therapist's recommendation, measured using data registered in the electronic patient file as "treatment ended on the initiative of the patient" by the end of the study 4. Patients' study dropout, defined as patients discontinuing participation in the study, measured using data registered in the trial's participants follow system by the research team before ending treatment or reaching 15 sessions of treatment | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Contacts
Public ContactKim de Jong
Outcome results
None listed