Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Intervention in Primary Care: A Pilot Study
The pilot study on the impact of a Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Intervention in Primary Care Medical Consultations in French-speaking Switzerland (PLIMeC-P), is a mixed method randomized controlled trial. The investigated health-related intervention is a brief Consultation-Liaison (CL) psychiatry intervention in pr
| Condition(s) | Mental Health Issue, Depression/Anxiety, Quality of Life, Psychosomatic Disorders, Patients Lived Experiences, Doctor-Patient Relation, Collaboration |
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| Status | Recruiting |
| Phase | NA |
| Study type | Interventional |
| Summary | The pilot study on the impact of a Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Intervention in Primary Care Medical Consultations in French-speaking Switzerland (PLIMeC-P), is a mixed method randomized controlled trial. The investigated health-related intervention is a brief Consultation-Liaison (CL) psychiatry intervention in primary care. Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) have a key role in preventing, detecting, and managing mental disorders. Therefore, the optimization of both the quality of their interventions and their cooperation with psychiatric and psychological care networks are important challenges. It is well demonstrated that multidisciplinary interventions improve the efficacy of mental health care, CL psychiatry being one such type of intervention. Therefore, community CL-psychiatry, for |
| Who can participate | Inclusion Criteria: * Aged more than 18 years * Signed informed consent to study protocol * Referred by their PCP due to mental distress, psychiatric symptoms, or complexity of medical care * Having fluent knowledge of the local language or being accompanied by an interpreter Exclusion Criteria: * Not being able to give an informed consent and follow the procedure of the study (due to dementia, restriction of intellectual capacity, acute confusional state, language problem) * Presenting an acute psychotic symptomatology, a hetero-aggression risk or an acute suicidality * Having an ongoing psychiatric follow-up |
| Ages | 18 Years |
| Sex | All |
| Lead sponsor | Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Locations | Neuchâtel, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland; Yverdon-les-Bains, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland |
| Start date | 2024-05-01 |
| NCT ID | NCT06377189 |
| Official listing | https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06377189 |