Psychotherapy Expectations and Distress Among Mental Health Patients and Their Therapists.

NCT06908343 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2025-05-02

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Summary

Patients will be recruited from the units of Shalvata MHC: closed and open hospitalization unit, and ambulatory units of Shalvata MHC community clinic. Their therapists will be recruited as well. There will be 4 timepoints measurement: baseline, second week, fourth week and after eight weeks (or discharge). Patients will be addressed through the therapeutic staff and the research team will contact them after a conceptually agreement to participate. A member of the research staff will schedule a meeting explaining the research thoroughly and ask the patient/therapist to sign an informed consent. After signing an informed consent, patients will complete several questionnaires at several time points, whereas their therapists will complete measures as well. All scales will be filled using the Qualtrics platform. In hospitalization unit questionnaires will be filled with the aid of the research coordinator, and in the facilities of Shalvata MHC, in face-to-face interaction. During the face-to-face interaction, in case the patient will report suicidal thoughts or plan to a member of the research staff, the therapeutic staff will be notified immediately. patients at community clinics will fill the first measurement in face-to-face interaction and the rest of the questionnaires independently recieveg a link to their mobile phone.

Conditions

  • Expectancy
  • Distress, Psychological

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shalvata Mental Health Center

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-20
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2025-12-31

Countries

  • Israel

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