Implementation and Evaluation of a Family-based Intervention Program for Children of Mentally Ill Parents (CHIMPs)
Schizophrenia and Disorders With Psychotic Features, Mood Disorders, Neurotic Disorders
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Schizophrenia and Disorders With Psychotic Features focused on measuring children of mentally ill parents, family intervention, randomized controlled trial
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Family with at least one psychiatrically ill parent and at least one child between the age of 3 and 19 years
- Consent to participate in the study
- Sufficient knowledge of the German language of parents and children
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe psychiatric disorders and impairments with acute symptoms such as suicidal tendencies, massive self-injurious behaviour, acute psychotic symptoms etc., making a stationary treatment inevitable and making a ambulatory intervention appear contraindicated (These patients are placed in stationary treatment)
- Children with severe symptoms in the control group will be placed at a participating psychotherapist. Nevertheless, they stay in the control group (as TAU).
Sites / Locations
- Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters
- Vitos psychiatrische Ambulanz Eltville
- Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik
- LWL-Klinikum Gütersloh, Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
- Asklepios Klinikum Harburg
- Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Abteilung für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Clinic and Polyclinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Vitos psychiatrische Ambulanzen Idstein
- Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik des Kindes- und Jugendalters
- Universitätsklinkum Leipzig, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
- LWL-Klinik Paderborn, Allgemeine Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Sächsischen Krankenhauses Altscherbitz
- Vitos psychiatrische Tageskliniken Wiesbaden
- Centre of Social Pediatrics, Dept. of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
CHIMPs intervention
Control
Family-Intervention
The long-term effectiveness of the CHIMPs intervention under conditions of practice will be examined in comparison to a control condition receiving the usual after care (Treatment as usual = TAU); this testing of effectiveness will be performed in due consideration of the health economic aspects. The treatment as usual implies that families of the control Group receive the Treatment that is customary in regular care. Thus, these families normally don't receive any post-treatment. If, however, a member of a control group family appears to have an urgent need for treatment (every Family receives a comprehensive diagnostic investigation at the beginning of the study), the respective family will be placed in the ambulatory care system.