Emergent Psychiatric, Consultation, Residentship Clinical Trial
Official title:
Current Trend of Epidemiology of Psychiatric Emergency and the Stress of Duty Psychiatric Resident
| Verified date | October 2017 |
| Source | National Taiwan University Hospital |
| Contact | n/a |
| Is FDA regulated | No |
| Health authority | |
| Study type | Observational |
Agitation, paranoia, and suicide risk of the psychiatric patients made them difficult to be
managed when they visited medical emergency services. The prolonged waiting time at medical
emergency services and the stigmatization of psychiatric medicine also made the psychiatric
emergency services full of challenges. However, in recent years, the random killings,
celebrity suicide and other major social events attracted much attention to the emergency
psychiatry.
Following the establishment of the National Health Insurance, the law of mandatory admission,
and the prevalence change of all psychiatric diseases, we are now dealing with totally
different types of emergent psychiatric conditions, i.e., depression and suicide. However,
the real epidemiological data need to be updated. Psychiatric emergency is one of the
entrances of the psychiatric network. A comprehensive review of the psychiatric emergency
would be needed for the base of further research.
This study is aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric diagnosis of patients who
came to Emergency Department of National Taiwan University Hospital and needed a psychiatric
consultation. The epidemiological data will be compared to those collected 30 years ago in
the same hospital to examine the 30-year trend. On the other hand, the visiting time and the
staying time will be analyzed. The stress of on-duty and the contributing factors will be
assessed by a 2-hour in-depth interview with psychiatric residents.
| Status | Enrolling by invitation |
| Enrollment | 16 |
| Est. completion date | December 1, 2019 |
| Est. primary completion date | November 1, 2018 |
| Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
| Gender | All |
| Age group | N/A and older |
| Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Psychiatric resident in NTUH Exclusion Criteria: - Major psychiatric illness |
| Country | Name | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | National Taiwan University Hospital | Taipei |
| Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
|---|---|
| National Taiwan University Hospital |
Taiwan,
| Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Qualitative Research | for 16 residents, interview data | until 2018/11/1 |