Randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment (REACT) services in Londo
- Conditions
- Mental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN55715361
- Lead Sponsor
- Record provided by the NHS Trusts Clinical Trials Register - Department of Health (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 251
1. Living in independent or low supported accommodation within the London boroughs of Camden and Islington
2. Under the care of the community mental health team for at least 12 months
3. Identified as having difficulty engaging with standard community care
4. Primary diagnosis of serious mental illness (for example, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, other chronic psychosis, bipolar affective disorder)
5. Recent high use of inpatient care (at least 100 consecutive inpatient days or at least five admissions within the past two years or at least 50 consecutive inpatient days or at least three admissions within the past year)
6. Individuals with concurrent problems from substance misuse or personality disorder were eligible if these were secondary diagnoses
Patients with organic brain damage
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an important and promising model, in that it has the potential to meet the needs of a particularly chaotic client group to whom standard community based services currently struggle to deliver services. The results should inform policy makers, local service commissioners and providers of health services in metropolitan areas in the UK.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ot provided at time of registration