Condition: Mental Health Issue · Depression/Anxiety · Quality of Life · Sponsor: Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisante), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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 example in private primary care group practices, are rare. The impact of such community, primary care CL-psychiatry interventions, should be investigated. The mixed methods randomized controlled trial PLIMeC study will examine the impact of a CL-psychiatric intervention in primary care settings, for newly reported mental illness, versus a Treatment As Usual (TAU) control arm. The intervention consists of a CL-psychiatric intervention into private medical practices, provided to patients suffering from mental health problems, a group of patients generally under-treated. The CL-psychiatrist will receive and discuss PCPs' referrals for patients with mental distress, who don't have a psychiatri…
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Konstantinos Tzartzas, MD · 0041 21 314 61 10 · konstantinos.tzartzas@unisante.ch
Stéphane Saillant, PD · 0041 32 755 15 15 · stephane.saillant@cnp.ch
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| Centre Neuchâtelois de Psychiatrie (CNP) | Neuchâtel, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland | Recruiting |
| Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté) - Sponsorship / Not recruiting site | Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland | Active Not Recruiting |
| Service de psychiatrie de l'adulte nord ouest (SPANO) Département de psychiatrie - CHUV (DP-CHUV) | Yverdon-les-Bains, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland | Recruiting |
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