Mentalizing Education in a Psychiatric Out-patient Clinic

Mentalizing Education in a Psychiatric Out-patient Clinic in North Norway

Mentalization-based Mental Health Education in a naturalistic patient population from a psychiatric out-patient clinic in North Norway: A randomized controlled study

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Mental Health Education
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Mentalizing course

Detailed Description

Half of an unselecected waiting list group of patients (randomized) from a psychiatric out-patient clinic are offered a 6 hour mental health education course abour mentalizing. 1 year follow up period. Primary outcome variable is use of hospital services. Secondary outcome variables are questionnaire scores.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 256
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Poul Lundgaard, MD; Phone Number: +47 94785611; Email: poul.lundgaard.bak@unn.no

Study Locations

• Norway
  • Harstad, Norway, 9404
    • Recruiting
    • University Hospital North Norway
    • Contact: Poul Lundgaard, MD; Phone Number: +47 94785611; Email: poul.lundgaard.bak@unn.no

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• all norwegian speaking patients referred to the outpatient clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention group; Patients offered mentalizing course supplemental to treatment as usual	Behavioral: Mentalizing course; 6 hour mental health education course about mentalizing.
No Intervention: Control; Control group - treatment as usual.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Hospital service us	Contact days (policlinic, inpatient ward and emergency team)	1year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
3 item wellbeing questionnaire	Each question is answered on a separate 0-9 point scale. Higher scores means better outcome.	6 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital of North Norway
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Poul Lundgaard, MD, University Hospital North Norway

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 30, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 14, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 23, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): June 26, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 26, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 23, 2023
• Last Verified: March 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: DPSHA-UNN Mz Study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No