Problem Solving Treatment (PST) Project.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON20998

Enrollment

160

Registered

2005-07-13

Start date

2002-11-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

PST versus care as usual.

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients of 18 years and older, who present psychological problems and are frequent attenders of general practice are recruited by the research-assistant.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients who are treated in last year in the GGz, for example with cognitive behaviour therapy; 2. Patients who suffer from a serious medical sickness, psychotic impairment, primarily organic-mental impairment or serious individuality problems; 3. Patients who are multiple visitors of the general practitioner because of chronic or hypochondria; 4. Patients who are indicated for anxiolytic or antidepressant, or patients who used these drugs less than 12 weeks, or those without constant treatment dose in the following 10 weeks; 5. Patients with serious addiction problems; 6. Patients who are suicidal; 7. Patients who are not able to fill in the questionnaire (GHQ); 8. Patients with insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Reduction of symptoms, measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to monitor symptom levels of anxiety and depression.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Social problem-solving skills, measured using a questionnaire designed by D’Zurilla; 2. Psychological and physical well-being using Short Form-36; 3. Social support, using the Social Support Inventory; 4. Coping-styles by the VOMS (Vragenlijst over Omgaan met Situaties) is the Dutch adaption of the ways of coping questionnaire (WAYS) which is based on the transactional coping theory of Lazarus and Folkman; 5. Rumination: Actual scientific reports suggest rumination as a significant, and probable prognostic, factor for depression. The rumination scale (RRS); 6. Problem evaluation; 7. Health care utilization. We used the Trimbos/iMTA questionnaire for Costs associated with Psychiatric Illness (Tic-P) to measure the amount health care patients consume and to register sick days from work (Hakkaart-Van Roijen, 2002 128 /id). Furthermore, the EQ-5D was used.	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Social problem-solving skills, measured using a questionnaire designed by D’Zurilla; 2. Psychological and physical well-being using Short Form-36; 3. Social support, using the Social Support Inventory; 4. Coping-styles by the VOMS (Vragenlijst over Omgaan met Situaties) is the Dutch adaption of the ways of coping questionnaire (WAYS) which is based on the transactional coping theory of Lazarus and Folkman; 5. Rumination: Actual scientific reports suggest rumination as a significant, and probable prognostic, factor for depression. The rumination scale (RRS); 6. Problem evaluation; 7. Health care utilization. We used the Trimbos/iMTA questionnaire for Costs associated with Psychiatric Illness (Tic-P) to measure the amount health care patients consume and to register sick days from work (Hakkaart-Van Roijen, 2002 128 /id). Furthermore, the EQ-5D was used.

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Contacts

Public ContactP. Oppen, van

van der Boechorststraat 7

pvanoppen@ggzba.nl+31 (0)20 4448395

Outcome results