NCT01726387

Self-Management for Anxiety, Depression and Somatoform Disorders

Self-Management Support in Primary Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 364 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Anxiety, Depression and Somatoform disorders are highly prevalent in primary care. Very often these conditions remain undiscovered and/or untreated. In order to ease this urgent health care problem in the future, the investigators conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial, implementing a tandem working cooperation between a nurse practitioner (Counseling Assistant - CA) and a general practitioner (GP) on-site its own practise. The CA's task is to enhance the patients abilities to engage in a better self-management of their psychological symptoms and complaints, to enhance self-efficacy and empower the patients to tackle problems of daily living.

Detailed description

Anxiety, Depression and Somatoform disorders are highly prevalent in primary care. Very often these conditions remain undiscovered and/or untreated. Managing it is time-consuming and communication-intensive. Furthermore, the management is restraint by the high contact-frequencies in primary care practices in Germany. In order to ease this urgent health care problem in the future, the investigators conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial, implementing a tandem working cooperation between a nurse practitioner (Counseling Assistant - CA) and a general practitioner (GP) on-site its own practise. The CA's task is to enhance the patients abilities to engage in a better self-management of their psychological symptoms and complaints, to enhance self-efficacy and empower the patients to tackle problems of daily living.

Conditions

• Anxiety Depression (Mild or Not Persistent)
• Major Depressive Disorder, Single Episode, Unspecified
• Neurotic, Stress-related and Somatoform Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Psychosocial Counseling	Depending on their condition, counseling assistants support patients in self-management support, enhancing self-efficacy, reducing psychological symptoms
BEHAVIORAL	Usual Care	Depending on the conditions, patients get usual care of their general practitioner

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2012-11-14
• Last updated: 2018-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany