Feasibility trial of a structured intervention for expanding social networks in psychosis

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Specialty: Mental Health, Primary sub-specialty: Psychosis; UKCRC code/ Disease: Mental health/ Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Unspecified nonorganic psychosis

• Registration Number: ISRCTN93047402
• Lead Sponsor: oclor, East London NHS Foundation Trust

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-12-11
• Study Completion: 2019-02-28
• Last Update Posted: 17 August 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 36

Inclusion Criteria

Patients:
1. 18-65 years old
2. Diagnosis of psychosis-related condition (ICD-10 F20-29)
3. Capacity to provide informed consent
4. Ability to communicate in English
5. Limited social network size and low quality of life (Score less than 5 on MANSA quality of life assessment and less than 7 consecutive days with social contacts in the previous week)

Clinicians:
1. Mental health professional with experience of providing community mental health care (e.g. psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists)
2. Aged 18-65 years old
3. Employed by participating NHS Trusts
4. Capacity to provide informed consent
5. Ability to communicate in English

Exclusion Criteria

Patients:
1. Does not meet inclusion criteria
2. Primary problem of current drug addiction
3. No capacity to provide written informed consent
4. An inpatient on a psychiatric ward at the time of recruitment

Clinicians:
1. Does not meet inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life measured by the Manchester Short Assessment for Quality of Life (Priebe et al., 1999) at baseline and at 6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. The number and quality of social contacts on each day of the previous week will be measured using Social Contacts (SCA) (Giacco et al., 2016), including detailed questions about social activities as developed in the ongoing PGfAR VOLUME (on volunteering in mental health) and including questions of the Time Use Survey (Priebe et al., 2016) at baseline and at 6 months<br> 2. Positive and negative symptoms assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS, Kay 1991 and Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS, Kring et al., 2013) at baseline and at 6 months<br> 3. Loneliness assessed using UCLA-8 (Hays and DiMateo, 1987) at baseline and at 6 months<br>