This study aims to examine REMOTION, an internet-based intervention aimed at reducing symptom severity and improving emotion regulation in an acute psychiatric inpatient care setting. REMOTION is currently being studied in an outpatient psychotherapy setting. This study aims to investigate feasibility and first effects of this intervention in inpatient psychiatric care.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
REMOTION is an internet-based program focusing on emotion regulation and aimed at reducing patient symptom severity and improving emotion regulation. It consists of six modules and the structure is based on the extended process model of emotion regulation by Gross (2015). The intervention is currently being studied in an outpatient psychotherapy setting (Bielinski et al., 2020).
Treatment as usual (TAU), refers to standard treatment in an acute inpatient care setting at the Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern. This treatment includes different standard inpatient psychiatric care components (integrative psychiatric care).
Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Change in general symptom severity
Assessed with the Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI-18)
Time frame: Assessed at Baseline
Change in general symptom severity
Assessed with the Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI-18)
Time frame: Assessed after 4 weeks
Change in general symptom severity
Assessed with the Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI-18)
Time frame: Assessed after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake)
Change in general symptom severity
Assessed with the Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI-18)
Time frame: Assessed after 8 weeks
Difficulties in emotion regulation
Assessed with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)
Time frame: Assessed at Baseline, then after 4 Weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks
Emotion regulation skills
Assessed with the Self-Report Measure for the Assessment of Emotion Regulation Skills (SEK-27)
Time frame: Assessed at Baseline, then after 4 Weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks
Usability of REMOTION
Assessed with the System Usability Scale (SUS)
Time frame: Assessed after 4 weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks
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Satisfaction with REMOTION
Assessed with the ZUF-8 (Fragebogen zur Messung der Patientenzufriedenheit) Questionnaire adapted for an internet-based program
Time frame: Assessed after 4 Weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake), and after 8 Weeks
REMOTION usage parameters
Amount of modules completed and amount of exercises completed
Time frame: Assessed after 4 weeks, after inpatient discharge (on average 24 days after inpatient intake) and after 8 weeks
Qualitative interviews with healthcare workers
Recorded interviews on the topic of attitudes towards / barriers and facilitators / advantages and disadvantages of internet-based interventions in inpatient care
Time frame: 4 months after study start
Qualitative interviews with patients lost to follow up
Individuals lost to follow up can take part in a telephone interview on a voluntary basis, this examines reasons for loss to follow up
Time frame: After a patient is lost to follow-up (after the 8 week timepoint when follow-up is assessed, has passed for the individual patient)