MERIT - Monitoring Early Response of Inpatient Treatment
Summary description of the study
Psychotherapy is an effective method for treating mental disorders. However, patients whose symptoms do not change as expected through psychotherapy are often identified too late. To detect such patients as early as possible, it has proven helpful in outpatient treatments to regularly assess the psychological state and treatment progress of patients and report this back to the therapeutic professional. This makes the treatment course of patients visible and allows the treatment to be tailored to their needs. So far, it has not been investigated whether this method can also improve treatment success in inpatient care for adolescents with mental disorders. The MERIT project aims to investigate whether the regular assessment of psychological state and treatment progress, as well as feedback to therapeutic professionals, helps improve treatment success in adolescents in inpatient psychiatric care.
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Intervention under investigation
During the study, we will accompany the patients throughout their entire inpatient treatment and regularly ask them questions about their mental health and treatment progress. Additionally, the patients will be randomly assigned to one of two groups (feedback group / control group). In the feedback group, the therapeutic professional receives weekly feedback on the psychological state and treatment progress. In the control group, the therapeutic professional does not receive such feedback.
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Disease under investigation
With the MERIT project, we want to investigate whether the regular assessment of psychological state and treatment progress, as well as feedback to therapeutic professionals, helps improve treatment success in adolescents in inpatient psychiatric care.
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Age between 12-17 years; Inpatient or day treatment in one of the youth wards of UPD Bern; Good German language skills in understanding and speaking; Written consent available (BASEC)
Exclusion criteria
Insufficient German language skills; Other reasons preventing adherence to study requirements (BASEC)
Trial sites
Bern
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Sponsor
Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie Bern
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Contact
Contact Person Switzerland
Michael Kaess
+41 31 932 86 24
michael.kaess@clutterupd.chUniversitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie Universität Bern Bolligenstrasse 111 3000 Bern 60
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Scientific Information
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Name of the authorising ethics committee (for multicentre studies, only the lead committee)
Ethics Committee Bern
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Date of authorisation
08.11.2022
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ICTRP Trial ID
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Official title (approved by ethics committee)
MERIT - Monitoring Early Response of Inpatient Treatment (BASEC)
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Disease under investigation
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Results-Individual Participant Data (IPD)
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Results of the trial
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