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Evaluation of Home Treatment for Acute Psychiatric Care

NCT03320720 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 700

Last updated 2017-10-25

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Summary

The study's goal is to evaluate whether home treatment is an effective and efficient alternative to inpatient care for people with acute mental illness. Patients who meet the study's inclusion criteria are randomly assigned to either the condition home treatment or inpatient care (treatment-as-usual), during one year. Following two years, the two treatment modalities will be analyzed in terms of inpatient days, cost effectiveness, rehospitalization rate, severity of symptoms and sociodemographics.

Conditions

  • Mental Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

Home Treatment

Patients with acute mental illness in need of inpatient care are treated at their houses by a mobile and multiprofessional care team if their health condition permits.

OTHER

Treatment-as-usual

Patients with acute mental illness in need of inpatient care are treated in a psychiatric clinic.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Matthias Jäger, MD · Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-30
Primary Completion
2020-11-30
Completion
2020-11-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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