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Ensemble Programme an Early Intervention for Informal Caregivers of Psychiatric Patients
Sponsor: Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé la Source
Summary
This study focuses on the difficulties of maintaining optimal psychological health and quality of life for caregivers in adult psychiatry while they play an important role in helping patients with severe psychiatric disorders. It evaluates the addition of a 5 session psychological program, named Ensemble. Half of the participants will receive their usual support and Ensemble in combination, while the other half will receive usual support only.
Official title: Ensemble Programme an Early Intervention for Informal Caregivers of Psychiatric Patients: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 90 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
160
Start Date
2019-09-01
Completion Date
2023-04-30
Last Updated
2026-09-25
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Ensemble programme
Ensemble is a individualized programme to address informal caregiver's specific unmet needs, emotions and social resources, in order to offer a targeted support in five sessions.
SAU
Informal caregivers have often to manage the situation in usual different ways. Support as usual (SAU) alone consists of an informal support by patient's clinical team. Specific psychoeducational programs depending on patient's illnes (like "Profamille" for schizophrenia) or peer-support depending to the voluntary work of families' associations. Some general professional services focused on informal caregivers or relatives in order to inform and orient them if they are avaible in the study area. No attempts have been made to standardize this treatement as SAU depend to informal caregiver's need and knowledge of the health system, also her/his capacity or possibility to be in contact with patient's clinical team.
Locations (1)
La Source, School of Nursing Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Lausanne.
Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland