MYSelf
Master Your Symptoms: Personalized online self-help for somatic symptom disorder...
Description
Pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) in primary care assessing the effectiveness of Grip self-help, a personalized, web-based, guided self-help intervention for patients with medically unexplained symptoms, compared to care as usual...
General Design
- Type
- Clinical trial
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Design description
- Pragmatic randomized controlled trial comparing primary care patients with mild MUS randomized to eHealth with those randomized to care as usual.
- Start/End data collection
- 2019 until 2024
- Design paper
- Personalized, Web-Based, Guided Self-Help for Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms in Primary Care: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
- PID
- https://doi.org/10.34760/6229b21042216
- External identifiers
- METc number: M18.232173
Population
- Countries
- Netherlands (the)
- Number of participants
- 57
- Population age groups
- Adult (18+ years)
- Main medical condition
- V Mental and behavioural disorders
- F40-F48 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
- F45 Somatoform disorders
- Inclusion criteria
- Health status inclusion criterion
- Other inclusion criteria
- - Age ≥18 years - Presenting with mild to moderate medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). In line with the guidelines provided by the Dutch College of General Practitioners, MUS are defined as “physical symptoms that have persisted for more than several weeks and for which adequate medical examination has not revealed any condition that sufficiently explains the symptoms” [12]. MUS are considered mild to moderate in case of (1) mild to moderate functional limitations because of the symptoms, (2) symptoms in 1, 2 (mild), or 3 (moderate) symptom clusters (gastrointestinal symptoms, cardiopulmonary symptoms, musculoskeletal symptoms, and nonspecific symptoms), and (3) symptom duration longer than expected by the general practitioner - Main symptom concerns pain, gastrointestinal complaints, or fatigue - Adequate command of the Dutch language, no major cognitive or visual impairment
- Exclusion criteria
- Health status inclusion criterion
- Other exclusion criteria
- - Currently treated by a mental health professional (psychotherapy) - Likelihood of posttraumatic stress disorder (Trauma Screening Questionnaire ≥6 ), severe anxiety disorder (4-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire or 4DSQ Anxiety ≥10), or severe depressive disorder (4DSQ Depression ≥6 ) that needs treatment according to GP - Pregnancy - Engaged in a legal procedure concerning disability-related financial benefits - Not in possession of an email account and a personal computer, laptop, or tablet with internet connection
Organisations
Lead organisations
- University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)Netherlands (the)https://www.umcg.nl
Contributors
- dr. DJC (Denise) HanssenUniversity Medical Center Groningend.j.c.hanssen@umcg.nl
Principal Investigator
- prof. dr. JGM (Judith) G.M RosmalenUniversity Medical Center Groningenj.g.m.rosmalen@umcg.nl
Project leader
Available Data & Samples
Data categories
Survey data
Areas of information
- Administrative information
- Identifiers
- Date and time-related information
- Questionnaire and interview-related information
- Other administrative information
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Age/birthdate
- Sex/gender
- Marital/partner status
- Education
- Labour force and retirement
- Job history
- Parental occupation
- Other socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Technological devices
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
- Quality of life
- Functional limitations
- Symptoms and signs
- Symptoms related to multiple categories
- Medication and supplements
- Medication and supplement intake
- Health and community care services utilization
- Visits to health professionals
- Hospitalizations
- Community and social care
- Other health and community care
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Psychological distress and emotions
- Other psychological measures and assessments
- Preschool, school and work life
- School life
- Work life
- Other preschool, school or work life-related information
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Publications
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- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Data access fee
- false
- Release type
- Closed dataset
- Release description
- Closed dataset (T0, T1, T2, T3, end of treatment data available)
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- This study was financially supported by a grant from ZonMW (project ID 636310005). This funder had no role in the study design and will not have any role during its execution, analyses, interpretation of data, or decision to submit results for publication.