Older prisoner Health and Social Care Assessment and Plan (OHSCAP)

The effectiveness of the Older prisoner Health and Social Care Assessment and Plan (OHSCAP): a randomised controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN11841493

Enrollment

462

Registered

2013-10-25

Start date

2013-11-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2018-02-26

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Conditions

Topic: Primary Care Research Network for England

Interventions

Intervention: The OHSCAP was developed and implemented as part of a previous study funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) programme. An Ac

could be integrated into current prison/healthcare processes

assisted effective multi-agency working

provided an opportunity for prisoners to raise their concerns that would have otherwise gone unreported

and could be successfully conducted by a prison officer. The OHSCAP is paper based and information collected is uploaded onto existing prison, health and offender manager computer programmes. The fi

namely social, well-being and discharge planning. The social assessment includes open questions around relationships, activities and mobility. The well-being assessment includes exploratory questions

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Male

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Male aged 50 or over 2. Be entering HMP Leeds, HMP Altcourse, HMP Manchester, HMP Liverpool or HMP Wakefield 3. Have a known release date (convicted) or likely release date (unconvicted) of at least three months after their prison entry date

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Those who do not have the capacity to consent 2. Those considered by prison or healthcare staff not safe to interview alone due to their current risk assessment

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The mean number of unmet health and social care needs at three months as measured by The Camberwell Assessment of Need ? Short Forensic Version (CANFOR-S) (Thomas et al., 2003). Measured at baseline and three months after prison entry.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Functional health and wellbeing and activities of daily living as measured by The Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale (Bucks, Ashworth, Wilcock, & Siegfried, 1996) 2. Depression as measured by The Geriatric Depression Scale ? Short form (GDS-15) (Sheikh & Yesavage, 1986) 3. Appropriate health and service usage as measured by the Secure Facilities ? Service Use Schedule (SF-SUS) (Barrett & Byford, 2007) 4. Health-related quality of life as measured by The EQ-5D (Herdman et al., 2011). The visual analogue scale (VAS) aspect of this tool will be excluded. 5. The extent to which specific health and social care needs have been met as measured by the bespoke OHSCAP tool designed by the research team. Measured at baseline and three months after prison entry.	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Functional health and wellbeing and activities of daily living as measured by The Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale (Bucks, Ashworth, Wilcock, & Siegfried, 1996) 2. Depression as measured by The Geriatric Depression Scale ? Short form (GDS-15) (Sheikh & Yesavage, 1986) 3. Appropriate health and service usage as measured by the Secure Facilities ? Service Use Schedule (SF-SUS) (Barrett & Byford, 2007) 4. Health-related quality of life as measured by The EQ-5D (Herdman et al., 2011). The visual analogue scale (VAS) aspect of this tool will be excluded. 5. The extent to which specific health and social care needs have been met as measured by the bespoke OHSCAP tool designed by the research team. Measured at baseline and three months after prison entry.

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Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 25, 2026