HOPE: Help for people with money, employment and benefit problems

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Specialty: Mental Health, Primary sub-specialty: Study not assigned to a MH Clinical Studies Group; UKCRC code/ Disease: Mental Health/ Unspecified mental disorder; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Self-harming

• Registration Number: ISRCTN58531248
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Bristol

Brief Summary

2017 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29043091 protocol 2018 Results article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459961 results

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-10-12
• Study Completion: 2017-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 20 November 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 19

Inclusion Criteria

1. People who have self ­harmed, or expressed suicidal thoughts or are in mental health crisis but do not meet the criteria for referral to secondary mental health care but who, without intervention, would probably suffer further deterioration in their mental health and risk of suicide
2. Those whose psychosocial assessment indicates that job loss, difficulties finding a job, benefit changes and/or sanctions (actual or fear of changes and sanctions), debt and economic hardship or housing problems as a result of financial problems were a key contributory factor to their self harm
3. Aged 18 years and over

Exclusion Criteria

1. Referred for secondary care psychiatric community or inpatient services by the hospital liaison psychiatry team
2. Experiencing a psychotic episode or are thought­disordered or unable to give consent
3. Patients with alcohol misuse problems
4. Aged below 18 years
5. Not fluent in English (as funding for the pilot navigator team is currently insufficient to provide people with different language skills / translators) or who would struggle with filling in forms or being interviewed
6. Living outside of the catchment area for the service

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Recruitment rate over the 9 month pilot as recorded as the proportion of people consenting and number of people being referred to the researcher for recruitment and randomisation<br> 2. Acceptability of the intervention, randomisation and questionnaire based measures to be recorded through qualitative interviews with participants<br> 3. Loss to follow-up at 3 months recorded as proportion of people not partaking in the full intervention<br> 4. Identification of additional training needs of navigators through on-going training and qualitative interviews<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
o secondary outcome measures