Achieving quality and effectiveness in dementia using crisis teams

Not Applicable

• Conditions: People with dementia experiencing a mental health crisis and carers receiving clinical input from a dementia crisis team (Team Managing Crisis in Dementia - TMCD); Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Unspecified dementia

• Registration Number: ISRCTN42855694
• Lead Sponsor: ottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Brief Summary

2022 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35042544/ (added 20/01/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-03-04
• Last Update Posted: 18 September 2023
• Study Completion: 2023-11-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 384

Inclusion Criteria

Teams (TMCDs) managing mental health crises in dementia in community settings, and practitioners, people with dementia and carers associated with these TMCDs. No age range criteria are set for any participants.

Exclusion Criteria

Teams (TMCDs) will be excluded for the following reasons:
1. Team is not defined by service/NHS Trust as having a role in dementia mental health crisis management
2. Team does not meet the following definition for mental health crisis: providing urgent mental health assessment and intervention for people with dementia in the community
3. A major service reorganisation is planned over the study period, or is anticipated in the near future
4. NHS Trust and team are not able to demonstrate capacity and capability to complete required research activities
5. Team is co-located with another team taking part in this study; sharing the same site is acceptable but sharing the same office is not
6. Team shares immediate management structures with another team taking part in this study; sharing a management structure above the level of team leader is acceptable but sharing a team leader is not
7. Core clinical staff for team do not operate separately from another team taking part in this study; this includes a requirement that core clinical staff must not engage in clinical cross cover with another team taking part in this study
8. Team shares core administrative staff with another team taking part in this study
9. If a team leader who has been exposed to the intervention becomes lead for a team in the control arm of the RCT, that latter team will then be excluded

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
umber of mental health hospital admissions measured using hospital admissions records for people with dementia in the geographical catchment area covered by the TMCD (as defined by postcode) at baseline and 6 months