Topic: Mental Health
Conditions
Interventions
Current interventions as of 01/06/2015:
The basic design will involve a conventional cluster cohort. We will randomise community mental health teams to either the intervention (training in care plann
Sponsors
Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Current inclusion criteria as of 01/06/2015: All community mental health teams (and health professionals therein) within the 10 mental health trust locations will be eligible for inclusion. Service users aged 18 and over with a severe mental illness (e.g., psychosis, manic depressive illness) under the care of participating community mental health teams will be eligible for inclusion for both the cluster cohort sample and cluster cross sectional sample. However, those who participate in the cluster cohort sample will not be eligible to also take part in the cluster cross sectional sample. Service users will be asked at the point of consent to identify a carer that might be willing to be included in the study. All carers over the age of 18 will be eligible for inclusion in the cluster cohort study. All service users and carers who consent to the cluster cohort study will be eligible to take part in the process evaluation. All professionals in the relevant community mental health teams will be eligible to take part in the process evaluation. Previous inclusion criteria: All community teams and rehabilitation inpatient facilities (and health professionals therein) within the Manchester and Nottingham locations will be eligible for inclusion. Service users aged 18 and over with a severe mental illness (e.g., psychosis, manic depressive illness) under the care of participating community teams and rehabilitation inpatient facilities will be eligible for inclusion for both the cluster cohort sample and cluster cross sectional sample. However, those who participate in the cluster cohort sample will not be eligible to also take part in the cluster cross sectional sample. Service users will be asked at the point of consent to identify a carer that might be willing to be included in the study. All carers over the age of 18 will be eligible for inclusion in the cluster cohort study. All service users and carers who consent to the cluster cohort study will be eligible to take part in the process evaluation. All professionals in the relevant community teams and rehabilitation inpatient facilities will be eligible to take part in the process evaluation.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Current exclusion criteria as of 01/06/2015: Service users will be excluded if their participation is judged as inappropriate by clinical staff within the relevant community mental health teams . The principal exclusion criteria will be an inability to provide informed consent. We will seek to document all exclusions and report them as part of the trial CONSORT diagram. Previous exclusion criteria: Service users will be excluded if their participation is judged as inappropriate by clinical staff within the relevant community teams and rehabilitation inpatient facilities. The principal exclusion criteria will be an inability to provide informed consent. We will seek to document all exclusions and report them as part of the trial CONSORT diagram.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The Health Care Climate Questionnaire (HCCQ-10, Ludman et al., 2002); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up 6 months later | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. A measure of health service contacts (service use questionnaire); timepoint(s): baseline and 6 months follow-up 2. California Psychotherapy Alliance Scale (CALPAS - Gaston and Marmar 1994); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 3. Carers and Users' Expectations of Services - carer version (CUES-C, Lelliott et al., 1999); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 4. Developing Recovery Enhancing Environments Measure (DREEM - Ridway and Press 2004); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 5. Glasgow Antipsychotic Side-effect Scale (GASS - Waddell and Taylor 2008); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 6. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS, Zigmond and Snaith 1983); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 7. PROM (User Carer involvement in care planning); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 8. The EQ-5D-5L (Janssen et al., 2012); timepoint(s): baseline and 6 months follow-up 9. Verona service satisfaction scale (VSSS - EU-54, Ruggeri and Dall'Agnola (1993)); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 10. Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS -Tennant et al., 2007); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months 11. World Health Organisation Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF - WHO 2004); timepoint(s): baseline and follow-up at 6 months | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed