Effect of Experience Sharing and Mutual Assistance on Insight and Recovery During the First Psychotic Episode

Centre hospitalier de Ville-Evrard, France50 enrolled

Overview

Controlled, prospective, qualitative and quantitative trial. The goal of this trial is to evaluate the mutual assistance early intervention device efficacy and its impact on insight and personal recovery of participants living with a first psychotic episode. This intervention lasts 5 days with 1 session per day of 1 hour 30 minutes. Three evaluations, before the intervention, after intervention and 1 month after the hospitalization's end.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Psychotic Episode

Interventions

Insight ScaleOTHER

Before the patient was in DIPEM or control group and after the patient is involved in DIPEM or control group

Semi-directional interviewsOTHER

In the end of the intervention. In the end of DIPEM Or in the end of control group. This intervention will be held after one month of hospitalization.

routine careOTHER

routine care

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 40 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Man or woman between 18 and 40 years old * First psychotic episode under the guidance of a doctor * Brief psycotic trouble (SM-V) * Presenting a first psychiatry hospitalization (all modalities hospitalizations combined) * Fluent in French language (read and written) * Patient affiliated to a social protection system or beneficiary of Medical Aid of State * Patient having signed informed consent for his participation in the protocol Exclusion Criteria: * Patients whose clinical condition does not allow them to participate in research * Patients placed in isolation rooms during the intervention

Locations (1)

Etablissement Public de Santé de Ville-Evrard

Neuilly-sur-Marne, France

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The level of the increasing of The INSIGHT scale

Used the "Echelle de conscience de trouble" - insight scale. There are 8 items, with 3 choices for each items : agree, disagree, unsure. The time is 5 minutes. Maximum score = 12, very good Insight Minimum score= 0, No Insight 9 and more= good insight

Time frame: at baseline (T0) and at 5 days after the intervention's beginning (T1).

Secondary Outcomes

The increase of Recovery Scale

Scale of recovery "Stage of recovery instrument" (STORI). The time is 25 minutes. There are 5 dimensions of recovery, with 10 groups of questions, with 50 items in total. There is 5 choices for each items, with "0" to "2" for "not at all true currently" and "3" to "5" is "completely true currently".

Time frame: At baseline (T0) and at 5 days after the intervention's beginning (T1).

The semi-structured interview

For the first semi-structured interview, with 11 questions on 3 themes : the crisis course and the hospitalization, the role of peers during hospitalization and finally afterwards hospitalization. For the second semi-structured interview, there are 13 questions with 4 themes : the hospitalization living, psychosocial functioning, trouble awareness and management of symptoms.

Time frame: At baseline (T0) and at 1 month after the hospitalization's end (T2).

Central Contacts

Rusheenthira Thavaseelan

CONTACT

0143093232 r.thavaseelan@epsve.fr

mathilde Pistre

CONTACT

0143093232 m.pistre@epsve.fr

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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