NCT00159562

Effects of Psycho-education of Patients With Bipolar Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 85 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose for this study is to determine whether psycho-education in groups is more effective than individual psycho-education for patients with bipolar disorder.

Detailed description

The main aim of the study is to compare the effects of psycho-education in groups with short individual psycho-education. It is a randomized controlled trial including Bipolar 1 and 2 patients in a stable euthymic phase. 42 or 43 patients will receive group education in 10 weekly sessions and then a session every third month for two years. 42 or 43 patients will receive three individual sessions of education. Symptoms, admittances to hospital and function will be followed for two years.

Conditions

• Bipolar Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	individual education	individual sessions of psycho-education
BEHAVIORAL	Group education	group psycho-education in 10 weekly sessions and then a session every third month for two years

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2005-09-12
• Last updated: 2016-06-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway