Evaluating the effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle clinician in addressing the chronic disease risk behaviours of community mental health clients

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Smoking; Chronic disease; Mental Health - Other mental health disorders; Public Health - Health promotion/education; Poor nutrition; Inadequate physical activity; Public Health - Health service research; Harmful alcohol consumption; Provision of care (assessment, advice and referral) to address the chronic disease risk behaviours of community mental health clients; Chronic disease prevention

• Registration Number: ACTRN12616001519448
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Newcastle

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-11-03
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 540

Inclusion Criteria

Participants will be all new and existing clients of one community mental health service in Australia.

Exclusion Criteria

Clients who are under the age of 18 or identified by mental health staff to be too unwell or clinically inappropriate to contact will be ineligible for inclusion.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The number of referrals made by the community mental health service to the NSW Quitline and NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service (data provided by the respective services).[Assessed at a baseline and a six month follow-up (for the previous six month period).];The number of participants that had telephone contact with the NSW Quitline and NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service (data provided by the respective services).[Assessed at a baseline and a 6 month follow-up (for the previous six month period).];The number of participants that engaged in a behaviour change program offered by the telephone service. For the NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service, this includes enrolling in a six month coaching program. For the NSW Quitline, this includes accepting at least one follow-up coaching call from the service (data provided by the respective services). [Assessed at a baseline and a 6 month follow-up (for the previous six month period).]