NCT01361698

Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) in Danish Community Mental Health Centres

Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) in Danish Community Mental Health Centres: Protocol of a Randomized, Assessor-blinded Multi-centre Clinical Trial of a Recovery-oriented Program for People With Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 198 (actual)
• Sponsor: Amager Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Illness Management and Recovery program for people diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in according to their level of functioning.

Detailed description

Background: Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is a curriculum-based psychosocial intervention designed as structured program with a recovery-oriented approach. The aim of IMR is to rehabilitate people with severe mental illnesses by helping them acquire knowledge and skills in managing their illness and achieve personal recovery goals. Previous randomised clinical trials indicate that IMR can be implemented with a good effect and a high fidelity though further trials are crucial to demonstrate the potential effectiveness of IMR. Methods/Design: The trial design is a randomised, assessor-blinded, multi-centre, clinical trial of the IMR program compared with treatment as usual for 200 participants diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder under the care of two community mental health centres in the Capital Region of Denmark. The primary outcome is level of functioning at the end of treatment and at follow-up 21 months after baseline. The secondary outcomes are disease symptoms; use of alcohol/drugs; individual meaning of recovery; hope; hospital admissions and out-patient psychiatric treatment at the end of treatment and at follow-up 21 months after baseline.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Illness Management and Recovery (IMR)	In this Danish trial IMR will be implemented in group format with 10 patients assigned to each group and two IMR facilitators, and the IMR program will require nine months of weekly sessions to complete.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2011-05-27
• Last updated: 2026-02-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark