Mental Disorder
Conditions
Brief summary
This study aims to examine REMOTION, an internet-based intervention aimed at reducing symptom severity and improving emotion regulation in an acute psychiatric inpatient care setting. REMOTION is currently being studied in an outpatient psychotherapy setting. This study aims to investigate feasibility and first effects of this intervention in inpatient psychiatric care.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALREMOTION
REMOTION is an internet-based program focusing on emotion regulation and aimed at reducing patient symptom severity and improving emotion regulation. It consists of six modules and the structure is based on the extended process model of emotion regulation by Gross (2015). The intervention is currently being studied in an outpatient psychotherapy setting (Bielinski et al., 2020).
BEHAVIORALTAU
Treatment as usual (TAU), refers to standard treatment in an acute inpatient care setting at the Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern. This treatment includes different standard inpatient psychiatric care components (integrative psychiatric care).
Sponsors
University of Bern
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 18 or older * In acute inpatient care * With internet access * Informed consent given
Exclusion criteria
* Current participation in another specific emotion regulation intervention group * Current or history of psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, mental retardation or organic mental disorders * Acute suicidality * Insufficient mastery of German language
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in general symptom severity | Assessed at Baseline | Assessed with the Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI-18) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Emotion regulation skills | Assessed at Baseline, then after 4 Weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks | Assessed with the Self-Report Measure for the Assessment of Emotion Regulation Skills (SEK-27) |
| Usability of REMOTION | Assessed after 4 weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks | Assessed with the System Usability Scale (SUS) |
| Satisfaction with REMOTION | Assessed after 4 Weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks | Assessed with the ZUF-8 (Fragebogen zur Messung der Patientenzufriedenheit) Questionnaire adapted for an internet-based program |
| Difficulties in emotion regulation | Assessed at Baseline, then after 4 Weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks | Assessed with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) |
| Qualitative interviews with healthcare workers | 4 months after study start | Recorded interviews on the topic of attitudes towards / barriers and facilitators / advantages and disadvantages of internet-based interventions in inpatient care |
| Qualitative interviews with patients lost to follow up | After a patient is lost to follow-up (after the 8 week timepoint when follow-up is assessed, has passed for the individual patient) | Individuals lost to follow up can take part in a telephone interview on a voluntary basis, this examines reasons for loss to follow up |
| REMOTION usage parameters | Assessed after 4 weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake) and after 8 weeks | Amount of modules completed and amount of exercises completed |
Countries
Switzerland
Outcome results
None listed