CompletedPhase 3

DEPENAS: A Psychosocial Intervention for Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms

156 participantsStarted 2001-01

Plain-language summary

General practitioners play a key role in the management of one of the most complex problems facing the health care system: the large group of patients with unexplained medical symptoms, but effective treatment strategies are lacking in primary care. The purpose of this study is to compare a new intervention delivered by the general practitioner versus re-attribution of symptoms, which is the currently recommended best treatment for patients with high levels of medically unexplained physical symptoms.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 65 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients between 18 and 65 years of age, who had presented (over the course of their lives) six or more medically unexplained somatic symptoms for female subjects and four or more for male subjects * At least one of the symptoms would have continued to be present during the last year Exclusion Criteria: * Dementia * Psychotic disorders * Drug dependence * Bipolar disorder * Eating disorders * Malingering patients * Patients engaged in psychotherapy

What they're measuring

Health related quality of life

Trial details

NCT IDNCT00130988

SponsorBasque Health Service

Sponsor typeOTHER_GOV

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2002-02

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