Family Involvement in The Treatment Of a Mentally Ill Relative

Families of Mentally Ill Clinical Trial

Official title:

Family Involvement in The Treatment Of a Mentally Ill Relative

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00258167
• Other study ID #: LH12/2005.CTIL
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 23, 2005
• Last updated: June 10, 2008
• Start date: November 2005
• Est. completion date: November 2008

Study information

• Verified date: June 2008
• Source: Lev-Hasharon Mental Healtlh Center
• Contact: Igor Oyffe, MD
• Phone: 972-8981248
• Email: ioyffe[@]lev-hasharon.co.il
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Israeli Health Ministry Pharmaceutical Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

• Research demonstrates that the families of the seriously mentally ill are burdened by this caregiving role and by their responsibilities

• Research also demonstrates that family interventions are effective and that they have a potential to reduce family burden, as well as to improve the condition of the mentally ill patients.

• We assume that the sibling group intervention would be effective in reducing the family burden of the siblings, and that this reduction would be reflected in their replies to the "Experience of Caregiving Inventory".

Description:

• The group for siblings is an intervention which is carried out in the outpatient clinic of Lev HaSharon Mental Health Center in cycles which last eight weeks;

• Every group cycle will include between 10-14 participants, all siblings of persons with mental illness. The patients themselves (ill siblings) are either hospitalized in Lev HaSharon Mental Health Center, or are outpatients in the Lev HaSharon Mental Health Outpatient Unit, or in the community at large.

• The group is an ongoing group: short term intensive group intervention in a dynamic orientation. Veteran participants of each cycle are welcome to re-join at following cycles, and at the same time new participants can join at the beginning of each cycle.

• Participants will be asked to fill the "Experience of Caregiving Inventory" twice:

first time before the first meeting of a particular cycle of sibling group and second time: after the last (eighth) meeting of this group cycle.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: November 2008
• Est. primary completion date: November 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• siblings of persons with mental illness

Exclusion Criteria:

• persons junior then 18 years old

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Families of Mentally Ill

Intervention

Behavioral:
• filling the "Experience of Caregiving Inventory"
8 weeks of group therapy for family members

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Lev-HasharonMHC	Netanya

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lev-Hasharon Mental Healtlh Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

References & Publications (2)

Dixon L, McFarlane WR, Lefley H, Lucksted A, Cohen M, Falloon I, Mueser K, Miklowitz D, Solomon P, Sondheimer D. Evidence-based practices for services to families of people with psychiatric disabilities. Psychiatr Serv. 2001 Jul;52(7):903-10. Review. — View Citation

Melamed, S. Permission: A conceptual tool for treating mentally ill patients and their families. Journal of Family Psychotherapy. 12 (2). Pp. 29-42, 2001.

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Score on the "Experience of Caregiving Inventory" following 8 weeks of participation in the group.		8 weeks	No