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Impact of an Intervention with a Narrative Approach in Overusers: a Clinical Trial
Sponsor: Catalan Institute of Health
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare an intervention with a narrative therapy-based approach with standard care in overusers in general practice . The main question it aims to answer are: • An intervention with an approach based on narrative therapy can improve the perception of emotional support, and reduce the probability of suffering from anxiety and/or depression, the number of consultations, and the number of medications in primary care overusers. Participants will 10 individual sessions carried out over five months. The interval between sessions will be two weeks with a specific duration of fifty minutes per session.. If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare two groups of overusers to see if reduces the number of visits to the primary care doctor.
Official title: Impact of an Intervention with a Narrative Approach in Overusers in Primary Health Care: a Controlled and Randomized Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
25 Years - 85 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
264
Start Date
2023-10-18
Completion Date
2025-12
Last Updated
2024-08-26
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention with a narrative approach.
Health social workers will carry out a intervention with a narrative approach, through its training profile based on transversal skills, which will consist of 10 sessions carried out over five months. The interval between sessions will be of two weeks with a specific duration of fifty minutes per session. This type of intervention, with the objective of reorienting and redefining the demand or the initial problems that motivated the consultation, gives space to the patient\'s subjective complaint, as well as to locate the understanding of the discomfort and the symbolic meaning of the symptoms. That is, recognizing the physical symptoms while listening to stories of chaos to legitimize both the user and his symptoms, an encounter that allows return the user to its context without feeling rejected or judged by the health system.
Locations (1)
Centre d'Atenció Primària Montnegre, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain