Status:
COMPLETED
Treatment of Patients With Longstanding Unexplained Health Complaints
Lead Sponsor:
University of Aarhus
Collaborating Sponsors:
Aarhus County, Denmark
Aarhus University Hospital
Conditions:
Somatization Disorder
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-45 years
Phase:
PHASE2
PHASE3
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of specialized treatment (including cognitive therapy, social counselling and a recommendation letter to the patients' primary care physician) on t...
Detailed Description
Medically unexplained or functional somatic symptoms are complaints, which are not attributable to any verifiable, conventionally defined disease, or which cannot adequately be supported by clinical o...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Multiple somatic symptoms from several organ systems, without adequate medical explanation.
- Moderate to severe influence on daily life.
- The disorder's functional component can easily be separated from a possible well-defined chronic somatic illness.
- No lifetime-diagnosis of psychoses, bipolar affective disorder or depression with psychotic symptoms (International Classification of Diseases \[ICD-10\]: F20-29, F30-31, F32.3, F33.3)
- The condition must have been present for at least 2 years.
- Patients of Scandinavian origin who understand, read, write and speak Danish.
Exclusion
- No informed consent.
- An acute psychiatric disorder that demands other treatment, or if the patient is suicidal.
- Abuse of narcotics or alcohol and (non-prescribed) medicine.
- Pregnancy.
- Current industrial injury case or other action for damages.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 1 2008
Estimated Enrollment :
120 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00132197
Start Date
April 1 2005
End Date
September 1 2008
Last Update
November 16 2011
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Per Fink
Aarhus C, Denmark, 8000