Remote Monitoring and Support for Patients With Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective or Bipolar Disorder on Adherence

February 7, 2016 updated by: Assuta Hospital Systems

The Effect of Remote Monitoring and Support for Patients Suffering From Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective or Bipolar Disorder on Adherence to Treatment

Moma call center will provide unique service -Remote monitoring and support for mental health patients .The aim of this reserch is reducing hospitalization and improve adherence, by reaching out and there for monitoring very closely .

Study Overview

Detailed Description

"Moma" call center is a result of collaboration between Maccabi Health Services and The Gertner Institute of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research. The call center provides remote continuous monitoring and support for patients with chronic illnesses, and has been found useful for improvement in treatment adherence and other clinical measures in patients with diabetes and CHF.

The current project focuses on patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. Patients that suffer from these disorders are prone to low adherence and are at risk for discontinuation of treatment and frequent relapses.

The advantages of the "Moma" call-center include high availability, reaching out, collaboration between treatment centers and agents, and continuous remote monitoring. We hypothesize that these factors will enable improvement of support provided to these patients, early detection of their needs, connection with community care agents, monitoring of treatment adherence, and remote interventions targeted towards prevention of relapse.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

300

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 60 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Men & women,

  1. age 18-60 ,
  2. "Maccabi Health service" patients with diagnosis of: schizophrenia, Schizo - effective or Bipolar Dis.
  3. Must have 30 days or more of hospitalization (during 3 years). Treated with psychiatric medication.
  4. Living independently or with a help of a caregiver.
  5. Is able to provide written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Violent, or suicidal.
  2. Drug\ Alcohol, addiction,
  3. End stage Disease (Cancer, ESRF act.)
  4. Non - in depended and without Care giver/legal guardian

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: intervention group
intervention for improvement of treatment adherence "Intervention group"- This group will be followed by the "MOMA" call center (By the MOMA nures every couple weeks and by the study coordinatore and the treating Doctor at special "visits" as the study required.) The group will be monitored according to number of parameters, including treatment Adherence.
intervention for improvement of adherence
Experimental: control group
treatment as usual Control group- Treatment will continue as usual by the Doctor.(This group will allso be followed by the Study Coordinator at the same "visits" as the "Intervention group".The group will be monitored according to number of parameters, including treatment Adherence.
The control group will be treated according to the usual stadard of care.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
number of days of hospitalization
Time Frame: through study competion ,an average of 1 year.
through study competion ,an average of 1 year.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Collaborators

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Asaf B Caspi, MD, Sheba Medical Center

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

February 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

January 1, 2018

Study Completion (Anticipated)

January 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 18, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 24, 2016

First Posted (Estimate)

January 28, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 9, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 7, 2016

Last Verified

January 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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