An observational study in Long-term Mental Disorders, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-02-05.
Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon · Observational
People with severe and persistent mental disorders (or SMI, Severe Mental Illness) have a life expectancy which is 20 years less than the general population, mainly due to excess mortality related to cardiovascular disease. Moreover, despite an overall increase in life expectancy, the gap is widening between people with long-term psychological disorders and the general population.
This early excess mortality is explained by disparities between people with SMI and the general population not only in access to and use of health services but also in the quality and type of care provided. There is also an over-representation of risk factors and cardiovascular pathologies regardless of the mental disorder, despite the current recommendations for best practices.
The World Health Organization has defined the fight against somatic comorbidities as one of the axes of the European Mental Health Plan and one of the reference themes of the World Health Organization Mental Health Evidence and Research Programme (EPSM-Lille-Métropole). The Groupement de Coopération Sanitaire pour la recherche et la formation en santé mentale, which brings together 17 hospitals in France and relays the actions of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre, has decided to make it into a national research project.
Moreover, it is recognized that "medical" management of a disease is all the more effective when the patient is involved. However, the empowerment of people with long-term psychological disorders has never been put at the centre of a strategy to reduce cardiovascular risk.
In this context, we hypothesize that one of the keys to reducing cardiovascular risk would be to take into account the experience and representations of this risk by all stakeholders (people with long-term psychological disorders, their carers, primary health professionals and psychiatric professionals).
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon is the lead sponsor of 495 studies on the registry; 105 are open to participants now.
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Patients followed in ambulatory or full hospitalization (depending study phase)
For all groups:
For the "Users" group:
- Person with a long-term psychological disorder: Long-term illness (ALD 23), followed by outpatient or full hospitalization
For the "Caregivers" group:
- Adult helping a person with a long-term psychological disorder with a Long-Term Disability (ALD 23) and who has given his or her consent to be contacted for the study,
For the "Primary Care Professionals" group:
- Primary care professional in practice following at least one person with a long-term psychological disorder with a Long-Term Disability (ALD 23),
Exclusion Criteria:
1. For all groups:
Person with a long-term mental disorder
Other: Questionnaires (Phase 3) · Other: Focus groups (Phase 2) · Other: semi-structured interviews (Phase 1)
Adult helping a person with a long-term psychological disorder
Other: Focus groups (Phase 2) · Other: semi-structured interviews (Phase 1)
Primary care professional in practice following at least one person with a long-term mental disorder
Other: Focus groups (Phase 2) · Other: semi-structured interviews (Phase 1)
Psychiatric specialist working in a hospital or in private practice
Other: Focus groups (Phase 2) · Other: semi-structured interviews (Phase 1)
* CardioVascular Risk (CVR) questionnaire representation * SF12 * Getting Better My Way * My recovery plan * Psycom * Partner In Health scale
Focus group interviews conducted by two health sociologists in 4 distinct categories: caregivers, patients, primary health care professionals and psychiatric professionals.
Conduct of exploratory semi-directive interviews with users, caregivers, primary health care professionals and psychiatric professionals by a health sociologist
Focus group interview completion
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 14 months
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