Couples Coping With Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions — GUGKS  

Chronic Disease Clinical Trial

Official title: Couples Coping With Multimorbidity: Does Solitary Expressive Writing Foster Psycho-social Adaptation?

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Handling of complex health situations (as defined by multimorbidity) in partnership:

communication between romantic partners; subjective illness perception; coping with stressful experiences due to multimorbidity.

Intervention : Expressive Writing about subjective illness perception vs. Writing about individual Time-Management Primary Endpoint: subjective Health (e.g. SF 12 questionnaire) Secondary Endpoints: Psychosocial Adjustments (Depression, somatic symptoms, quality of partnership and others)

Clinical Trial Description

Coping in complex health situations (as defined by multimorbidity) and the role of relationship processes for psycho-social adaption: The study investigates interpersonal emotion regulation, disclosure, and illness perceptions in couples with a multimorbid patient. The intervention consists in 3 self-applied solitary written disclosure sessions (expressive writing), the control condition are 3 sessions writing about individual time-management (placebo).

Primary endpoint: subjective health (SF 12 questionnaire) Secondary endpoint: psychosocial adjustments (depression, positive and negative affect, somatic symptoms, adjustment disorder, marital satisfaction, sleep quality) ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Disease
• Illness Behavior
• Multiple Chronic Conditions

• NCT number: NCT01912157
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Zurich
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 2013
• Completion date: December 28, 2018