Psychiatric Day Hospital Treatment

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Depressive Disorders Adjustment Disorders Anxiety Disorders Depressive Disorder Mental Disorders Mood Disorders Personality Disorders Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Department of Psychiatry, First Medical Faculty, Charles University of Prague, Prague, Czechia

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

acute psychiatric day care

Behavioral

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Technische Universität Dresden

Other

Registry information

Important dates

First posted: Sep 12, 2005
Registry last updated: Sep 12, 2005

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