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Study aim
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Evaluating the effect of systematic patient and family education in the psychiatric emergency room on the process of receiving mental health care services
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Design
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A clinical trial with a control and experiment group, single-blind and randomized, a sample size of 100 and randomization method is simple randomization
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Settings and conduct
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This study is conducted in Emergency Department of Razi Hospital,Tabriz.
Four weeks after inclusion, a telephone call was made to enrolled patients and
questions were asked about intended variables. Then reported results from bot groups were compared to estimate effect of the education on process of receiving health care after discharge from emergency room.
The person who took the information by phone calls, is blinded to the assigned group of the patient.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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inclusion criteria:
Ability and willingness to give informed consent
Exclusion criteria:
Impaired conscientiousness
Absence of family members
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Intervention groups
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In this study, in the experimental group, a 15-minute educational session is provided for each patient . The content of the training includes the name of the disease/disorder, symptoms, etiology, possible treatments and its prognosis, which is provided by psychiatry residents of Department of psychiatry,Tabriz University of Medical Sciences will be provided.
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Main outcome variables
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Frequency of visits to the emergency room or clinic, the frequency of visits to treating doctor, referral to other specialists, medications and their use, Symptoms