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Online psycho-education to the treatment of bipolar disorder: protocol of a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder patients frequently present recurrent episodes and often experience subsyndromal symptoms, cognitive impairment and difficulties in functioning, with a low quality of life, illness relapses and recurrent hospitalization. Early diagnosis and appropriate intervention may p...

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Autores principales: González-Ortega, Itxaso, Ugarte, Amaia, Ruiz de Azúa, Sonia, Núñez, Nuria, Zubia, Marta, Ponce, Sara, Casla, Patricia, Llano, Josu Xabier, Faria, Ángel, González-Pinto, Ana
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28007034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1159-0
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author González-Ortega, Itxaso
Ugarte, Amaia
Ruiz de Azúa, Sonia
Núñez, Nuria
Zubia, Marta
Ponce, Sara
Casla, Patricia
Llano, Josu Xabier
Faria, Ángel
González-Pinto, Ana
author_facet González-Ortega, Itxaso
Ugarte, Amaia
Ruiz de Azúa, Sonia
Núñez, Nuria
Zubia, Marta
Ponce, Sara
Casla, Patricia
Llano, Josu Xabier
Faria, Ángel
González-Pinto, Ana
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description BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder patients frequently present recurrent episodes and often experience subsyndromal symptoms, cognitive impairment and difficulties in functioning, with a low quality of life, illness relapses and recurrent hospitalization. Early diagnosis and appropriate intervention may play a role in preventing neuroprogression in this disorder. New technologies represent an opportunity to develop standardized psychological treatments using internet-based tools that overcome some of the limitations of face-to-face treatments, in that they are readily accessible and the timing of therapy can be tailored to user needs and availability. However, although many psychological programs are offered through the web and mobile devices for bipolar disorder, there is a lack of high quality evidence concerning their efficacy and effectiveness due to the great variability in measures and methodology used. METHODS: This clinical trial is a simple-blind randomized trial within a European project to compare an internet-based intervention with treatment as usual. Bipolar disorder patients are to be included and randomly assigned to one of two groups: 1) the experimental group (tele-care support) and 2) the control group. Participants in both groups will be evaluated at baseline (pre-treatment) and post-treatment. DISCUSSION: This study describes the design of a clinical trial based on psychoeducation intervention that may have a significant impact on both prognosis and treatment in bipolar disorder. Specifically, bringing different services together (service aggregation), it is hoped that the approach proposed will significantly increase the impact of information and communication technologies on access and adherence to treatment, quality of the service, patient safety, patient and professional satisfaction, and quality of life of patients. TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT02924415. Retrospectively registered 27 September 2016 ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-016-1159-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-51780942016-12-28 Online psycho-education to the treatment of bipolar disorder: protocol of a randomized controlled trial González-Ortega, Itxaso Ugarte, Amaia Ruiz de Azúa, Sonia Núñez, Nuria Zubia, Marta Ponce, Sara Casla, Patricia Llano, Josu Xabier Faria, Ángel González-Pinto, Ana BMC Psychiatry Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder patients frequently present recurrent episodes and often experience subsyndromal symptoms, cognitive impairment and difficulties in functioning, with a low quality of life, illness relapses and recurrent hospitalization. Early diagnosis and appropriate intervention may play a role in preventing neuroprogression in this disorder. New technologies represent an opportunity to develop standardized psychological treatments using internet-based tools that overcome some of the limitations of face-to-face treatments, in that they are readily accessible and the timing of therapy can be tailored to user needs and availability. However, although many psychological programs are offered through the web and mobile devices for bipolar disorder, there is a lack of high quality evidence concerning their efficacy and effectiveness due to the great variability in measures and methodology used. METHODS: This clinical trial is a simple-blind randomized trial within a European project to compare an internet-based intervention with treatment as usual. Bipolar disorder patients are to be included and randomly assigned to one of two groups: 1) the experimental group (tele-care support) and 2) the control group. Participants in both groups will be evaluated at baseline (pre-treatment) and post-treatment. DISCUSSION: This study describes the design of a clinical trial based on psychoeducation intervention that may have a significant impact on both prognosis and treatment in bipolar disorder. Specifically, bringing different services together (service aggregation), it is hoped that the approach proposed will significantly increase the impact of information and communication technologies on access and adherence to treatment, quality of the service, patient safety, patient and professional satisfaction, and quality of life of patients. TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT02924415. Retrospectively registered 27 September 2016 ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-016-1159-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5178094/ /pubmed/28007034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1159-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ugarte, Amaia
Ruiz de Azúa, Sonia
Núñez, Nuria
Zubia, Marta
Ponce, Sara
Casla, Patricia
Llano, Josu Xabier
Faria, Ángel
González-Pinto, Ana
Online psycho-education to the treatment of bipolar disorder: protocol of a randomized controlled trial
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title_short Online psycho-education to the treatment of bipolar disorder: protocol of a randomized controlled trial
title_sort online psycho-education to the treatment of bipolar disorder: protocol of a randomized controlled trial
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28007034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1159-0
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