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The Compliance Project Concerning People With Schizophrenia

NCT00497848 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2011-06-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether individual and/ or system orientated interventions can help the problem of people with schizophrenia dropping out of their drug treatment

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

motivational interviewing

An individual intervention building on the "Motivational Interviewing" by Miller and Rollnick. Several studies has proved effectiveness of this therapy form in improving drug compliance. Patients will be offered individual motivational therapy

OTHER

The System-Orientated Intervention

Principles in this intervention come from "Clinical Risk Managing" and quality assurance. It focuses on daily problems in drug handling, including dropping out of drug therapy, by looking at the system as a whole.Some cases, where patients dropped out of drug therapy will be carefully analysed in order to identify week points in the system, and subsequently alter the instructions for drug therapy, information, reminders and so on.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of the Interior and Health, Denmark

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Bent Nielsen, Ph. D. · University of Southern Denmark

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
23 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-05-31
Primary Completion
2009-07-31
Completion
2009-07-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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