HOPE: Help for people with money, employment and benefit problems

A practical support intervention (HOPE) for people presenting to the hospital emergency department in mental health crisis / following self-harm where financial, employment, welfare benefit and housing problems contributed to their crisis: pilot randomised controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN58531248

Enrollment

Registered

2016-10-12

Start date

2016-05-16

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2023-11-20

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Conditions

Specialty: Mental Health, Primary sub-specialty: Study not assigned to a MH Clinical Studies Group

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. People who have self harmed, or expressed suicidal thoughts or are in mental health crisis but do not meet the criteria for referral to secondary mental health care but who, without intervention, would probably suffer further deterioration in their mental health and risk of suicide 2. Those whose psychosocial assessment indicates that job loss, difficulties finding a job, benefit changes and/or sanctions (actual or fear of changes and sanctions), debt and economic hardship or housing problems as a result of financial problems were a key contributory factor to their self harm 3. Aged 18 years and over

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Referred for secondary care psychiatric community or inpatient services by the hospital liaison psychiatry team 2. Experiencing a psychotic episode or are thoughtdisordered or unable to give consent 3. Patients with alcohol misuse problems 4. Aged below 18 years 5. Not fluent in English (as funding for the pilot navigator team is currently insufficient to provide people with different language skills / translators) or who would struggle with filling in forms or being interviewed 6. Living outside of the catchment area for the service

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Recruitment rate over the 9 month pilot as recorded as the proportion of people consenting and number of people being referred to the researcher for recruitment and randomisation 2. Acceptability of the intervention, randomisation and questionnaire based measures to be recorded through qualitative interviews with participants 3. Loss to follow-up at 3 months recorded as proportion of people not partaking in the full intervention 4. Identification of additional training needs of navigators through on-going training and qualitative interviews	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Recruitment rate over the 9 month pilot as recorded as the proportion of people consenting and number of people being referred to the researcher for recruitment and randomisation 2. Acceptability of the intervention, randomisation and questionnaire based measures to be recorded through qualitative interviews with participants 3. Loss to follow-up at 3 months recorded as proportion of people not partaking in the full intervention 4. Identification of additional training needs of navigators through on-going training and qualitative interviews

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
No secondary outcome measures	—

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Outcome results