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NCT Number: NCT01971307

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Mental Disorders

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Stichting Gezondheidscentra Eindhoven

Eindhoven, 5605 LS, Netherlands

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

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

Treatment and study plan

SGE-PsyScan

Other

Primary outcomes

  1. 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%.

    Time frame: 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. The level of psychosocial symptoms of patients as measured with the SCL-90

    Time frame: 3 months

  2. The level of psychosocial symptoms of patients as measured with the SCL-90

    Time frame: 6 months

  3. Health technology assessment

    Time frame: 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

  4. Health technology assessment

    Time frame: 6 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

  5. Health technology assessment

    Time frame: 9 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

  6. Health technology assessment

    Time frame: 12 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

  7. Quality of life will be measured using the EuroQol-5Dimensions-5Levels (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire

    Time frame: 3 months

  8. Quality of life will be measured using the EuroQol-5Dimensions-5Levels (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire

    Time frame: 6 months

  9. Quality of life will be measured using the EuroQol-5Dimensions-5Levels (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire

    Time frame: 12 months

  10. The extent of patient satisfaction with the care they receive, will be measured using the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC)

    Time frame: 3 months

  11. The extent of patient satisfaction with the care they receive, will be measured using the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC)

    Time frame: 6 months

  12. The extent of patient satisfaction with the care they receive, will be measured using the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC)

    Time frame: 12 months

  13. Electronic medical records parameters

    Time frame: 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.

Other outcomes

  1. Health care provider satisfaction with the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC)

    Time frame: 12 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Maastricht University Medical Center

Other

Collaborators

  • Stichting Gezondheidscentra Eindhoven (SGE)
  • Stichting Volksgezondheidszorg (VGZ)
  • Zorgverzekeraar CZ

Registry information

Acronym: SGE-PsyScan

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Oct 29, 2013
Registry last updated
Dec 22, 2015

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