NCT02276469

Peer Support for Severe Mental Disorders

Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer to Peer Support for People With Severe Mental Disorders: Schizophrenia, Affective Disorders and Personality Disorders in Comparison to Standard Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine wether peer support is effective for the treatment of people with severe mental illness.

Detailed description

A randomized controlled multi center trial is conducted, where patients receive usual care in the control group and usual care with additional peer support for 6 month in the intervention group. Psychosocial outcome criteria are collected pre intervention, after 6 month intervention and at one year follow up. Days till hospitalization and days spent in hospital are collected for one year before recruitment and one year after recruitment.

Conditions

• Psychosis
• Major Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	peer support	peer support is delivered by persons with a severe mental illness after the experience of recovery and after absolving a one year education to support others on their way to recovery

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-07-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2014-10-28
• Last updated: 2015-01-05