Developing and testing a strategy to prevent involuntary psychiatric hospital admissions
- Conditions
- Mental healthMental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN11627644
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity College London
- Brief Summary
2024 Protocol article in https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-024-01453-z (added 22/02/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Service user participants:
Eligible participants will:
1. Have been compulsorily detained under section of the Mental Health Act (section 2 or 3) during their current hospital admission
2. Be due to receive community mental health care locally post-discharge
3. Be aged 18+ years
4. Have the capacity to consent at the time of recruitment
Clinician participants (for intervention development and evaluation):
Eligible participants will be
1. Currently working in an NHS mental health service as a nurse, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, occupational therapist, support worker or assistant psychologist
2. Currently working with service users who are currently or recently (in the last year) detained under section of the Mental Health Act (section 2 or 3)
Personal mental health worker (for intervention evaluation):
1. Eligible participants will have delivered the adapted intervention to participants in the trial
Service user participants:
Participants will be excluded if they:
1. Are already receiving an intensive psychosocial intervention that focuses on crisis reduction (for example, assertive outreach services)
2. Have a diagnosis of dementia or a brain injury
3. Do not speak sufficient English to take part without an interpreter
4. Lack capacity to consent
Staff participants and personal mental health workers:
Does not meet the inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Compulsory readmission to psychiatric in-patient services measured by checking the medical records of participants at 12 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method