DISTRESS Trial Functional Disorders - the DISTRESS Trial

A Diagnostic Clinic for Functional Somatic Disorders (FSD) has been set up at the outpatient diagnostic center at Regionshospitalet Silkeborg. The objective of the clinic is to support General Practitioners (GPs) by offering early stage diagnostic evaluation of whether a patient has an FSD or the symptoms were caused by another physical illness or mental disorder. As a novelty in this project, Internal Medicine consultants examine the patients for FSD, after having received training in diagnosing FSD by FSD experts. By performing diagnostic evaluation for physical diseases and FSD simultaneously, the investigators believe that the new clinic shall be able to accelerate the establishment of a final diagnosis for these patients who would otherwise likely undergo a protracted diagnostic course involving sequential evaluations at various specialty clinics. The DISTRESS trial is a pragmatic randomized clinical trial which aims to evaluate the Diagnostic Clinic for FSD in terms of clinical cost-effectiveness outcomes.

NCT Number	NCT06025617
Lead Sponsor	Regionshospitalet Silkeborg Collaborators: Aarhus University Hospital
Conditions	Bodily Distress Syndrome, Functional Somatic Disorder
Enrollment	290 participants
Start Date	2019-06-01
Primary Completion	2025-12 (estimated)
Study Completion	2026-09 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-01-27