Adjustment Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Personality Disorders, Schizophrenia
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALacute psychiatric day care
Sponsors
Technische Universität Dresden
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Countries
Czechia, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed