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Training General Practitioners in Bulgaria to Reduce Suicide Rate

NCT03983356 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2319

Last updated 2019-06-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this project is to improve the management of suicide and common mental disorder by general practitioners (GPs) in Bulgaria in order to reduce the suicide rate in intervention regions. The study uses a natural experiment design which utilizes a training program aimed at improving the GPs management of suicide risk and detection of common mental disorders. The training program will be offered to four regions (North East, South West, South Central, South East), leaving two regions for control (North Central, North West), in order to evaluate the effect of the intervention.

Conditions

  • Suicide

Interventions

OTHER

Training program

An internet based training program will be offered to GPs. We will also offer face-to-face seminars with academic psychiatrists.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Centre of Public Health and Analyses

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Hristo Hinkov, MD, PhD · National Center of Public Health and Analyses

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
24 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2018-03-31

Countries

  • Bulgaria

Study Locations

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