Post Discharge Care for High-Risk Psychiatric Patients

Post Discharge Care for High Risk Psychiatric Patients: A randomised control trial to evaluate the impact of Intensive Case Management as an Aftercare Intervention in Suicide Attempters Following Discharge from Inpatient Settings to prevent repetition of suicidal behaviour.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000789662

Enrollment

Registered

2005-12-14

Start date

2006-03-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Participants are assigned the Intensive Case Management (ICM) group who will receive the proposed service. Participants in both the ICM (intervention) and TAU (control) groups are to be assessed at 6-month intervals (immediately following discharge, and at 6 and 12 months). The Project will run for 21 months. However, timing of Project phases will vary depending on the timing of discharge for participants.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Male

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

History of suicide attempts and psychiatric illness are recruited at discharge from psychiatric inpatient setting at the Gold Coast Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

No exclusion criteria

Outcome results