NCT01912157

Couples Coping With Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions

Couples Coping With Multimorbidity: Does Solitary Expressive Writing Foster Psycho-social Adaptation?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Zurich · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Handling of complex health situations (as defined by multimorbidity) in partnership: communication between romantic partners; subjective illness perception; coping with stressful experiences due to multimorbidity. Intervention : Expressive Writing about subjective illness perception vs. Writing about individual Time-Management Primary Endpoint: subjective Health (e.g. SF 12 questionnaire) Secondary Endpoints: Psychosocial Adjustments (Depression, somatic symptoms, quality of partnership and others)

Detailed description

Coping in complex health situations (as defined by multimorbidity) and the role of relationship processes for psycho-social adaption: The study investigates interpersonal emotion regulation, disclosure, and illness perceptions in couples with a multimorbid patient. The intervention consists in 3 self-applied solitary written disclosure sessions (expressive writing), the control condition are 3 sessions writing about individual time-management (placebo). Primary endpoint: subjective health (SF 12 questionnaire) Secondary endpoint: psychosocial adjustments (depression, positive and negative affect, somatic symptoms, adjustment disorder, marital satisfaction, sleep quality)

Conditions

• Chronic Disease
• Illness Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Expressive Writing	The intervention consists in 3 self-applied solitary written disclosure sessions (expressive writing)

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2018-12-28
• First posted: 2013-07-30
• Last updated: 2018-12-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland