Clinical Trial: Couples Coping With Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions

Study Status: Active, not recruiting
Recruit Status: Active, not recruiting
Study Type: Interventional

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

Brief 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)

Detailed Summary:

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)

Sponsor: University of Zurich

Current Primary Outcome: Subjective health (SF-12) [ Time Frame: 3 months ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome: Psychosocial adjustments [ Time Frame: 3 months ]

Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: University of Zurich

Dates:
Date Received: July 24, 2013
Date Started: July 2013
Date Completion: December 1, 2018
Last Updated: April 18, 2017
Last Verified: April 2017