Symptom management in complex post-traumatic stress disorder, view and experience of patients and their relatives: A mixed methods approach

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• Last refreshed on: 8 April 2024
• Main ID: DRKS00012268
• Date of registration: 21/04/2017
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Integrierte Psychiatrie Winterthur
• Public title: Symptom management in complex post-traumatic stress disorder, view and experience of patients and their relatives: A mixed methods approach
• Scientific title: Symptom management in complex post-traumatic stress disorder, view and experience of patients and their relatives: A mixed methods approach
• Date of first enrolment: 01/01/2017
• Target sample size: 100
• Recruitment status: Complete
• URL: http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00012268
• Study type: observational
• Study design: Allocation: ; Masking: ; Control: ; Assignment: ; Study design purpose: supportive care

Countries of recruitment

Switzerland

Contacts

• Name: Manuel Stadtmann
• Affiliation: integrierte Psychiatrie Winterthur

• Name: Manuel Stadtmann
• Affiliation: integrierte Psychiatrie Winterthur

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: • Age between 18 - 65 years
• Diagnosis of a cPTSD
• Outpatient processing is not possible
• good good spoken knowledge of German
• Participation by relatives
• First inpatientreatment
Exclusion criteria: • acute or latent unrecognizable suicidality
• a main diagnosis other than cPTSD
• endangerment of self and others

Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Post-traumatic stress disorder

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F43.1

Intervention(s)

Group 1: The data basis for the quantitative part comprises data which are already collected during the regular inpatient treatment by the practitioner (psychologist or psychiatrist) and fed into a hospital-internal database. Time of measurement is the during entry period for inpatient treatment. Collected are the socio demographic data through of a clinical questionnaire, symptomdata using the symptom inventory Inventory®, Becks-Depression-Inventory®, health questionnaire SF-12® and the Impact of Events Scale - Revised. Patients who meet the criteria are during the inpatient treatment additionally diagnosed using the ICD-11 trauma questionnaire. Patients and relatives will be interviewed through a semi-structured interview on symptom management and their experience in everyday life.

Primary Outcome(s)

The socio demographic data through of a clinical questionnaire, symptomdata using the symptom inventory Inventory®, Becks-Depression-Inventory®, health questionnaire SF-12®, the Impact of Events Scale - Revised and through the ICD-11 trauma questionnaire.

Secondary Outcome(s)

The symptom management in the everyday life, the experience of the patients, as well as the experience of a corresponding relative are going to be collected through semi-structured interviews.

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Integrierte Psychiatrie Winterthur

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date: 26/02/2016
Contact:

Kantonale Ethikkommission Zürich [Kantonal Ethikkommission Zürich, Stampfenbachstrasse 121 8000 Zürich Schweiz]

Results

• Date Completed: 31/12/2017
• URL: http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00012268#studyResults