Supporting Primary Care in Diagnosis and Choice of Treatment for Patients With Psychosocial Symptoms: SGEPsyScan.

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01971307

Acronym

SGE-PsyScan

Enrollment

336

Registered

2013-10-29

Start date

2013-12-31

Completion date

2015-09-30

Last updated

2015-12-22

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Conditions

Mental Disorders

Brief summary

Although effective treatments for psychosocial symptoms and disorders are available, patients frequently do not receive the most appropriate and effective treatment for their symptoms because of inappropriate and unstructured diagnostics of psychosocial symptoms in general practice. The hypothesis is that by using the intervention SGE-PsyScan the clinical symptoms of patients can be assessed more uniformly and earlier as opposed to the GPs' assessment in usual care. As a result, patients are supposed to start earlier with a treatment that fits the type and severity of their symptoms better. The patients will be randomly assigned to either receive the SGE-PsyScan or usual care.

Interventions

OTHERSGE-PsyScan

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE (Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients with (suspected) psychosocial symptoms * Aged 18 years or older and capacitated * Adequate understanding of Dutch language * Able to perform SGE-PsyScan at home, individually

Exclusion criteria

* Clear and treatable somatic causes of symptoms * Acute distress/danger * No written informed consent

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The rate of patients who achieve a successful decrease in the level of psychosocial symptoms as measured with the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) after 12 months. A successful treatment result is defined as a decrease in the SCL-90 patient score of 50%.	12 months

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
The level of psychosocial symptoms of patients as measured with the SCL-90	3 months	—
Health technology assessment	3 months	We will measure direct and indirect costs in both groups with the Trimbos/iMTA questionnaire for Costs associated with Psychiatric Illness (TiC-P) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parameters indicating relevant expenditures including treatments, consultations and referrals
The extent of patient satisfaction with the care they receive, will be measured using the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC)	3 months	—
Electronic medical records parameters	12 months	Relevant psychosocial care parameters will be extracted from the EMR to monitor changes in care patterns including previous psychosocial episodes, numbers and types of psychosocial diagnoses, use of screening/diagnostic instruments, comorbidity, treatments, medication prescriptions, referrals and health care consumption.
Quality of life will be measured using the EuroQol-5Dimensions-5Levels (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire	3 months	—

Other

Measure	Time frame
Health care provider satisfaction with the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC)	12 months

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026