Mental health Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
The study aims to develop a new type of support to help service users and mental health staff have structured discussions after a Mental Health Act (MHA) assessment. MHA assessments can be distressing
Sponsors
University College London
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Service user participants WP1 and WP3: Eligible participants will: 1. Have experienced and remember the Mental Health Act assessment 2. Be able and willing to discuss this experience 3. Be aged 18 years and over and under 65 years 4. Have the capacity to consent at the time of recruitment Staff participants WP1: Eligible participants will be: 1. Currently involved in MHA assessments as an Approved Mental Health Professional or Section 12 Doctor or Consultant psychiatrist, or 2. Working with service users who have experience MHA assessments and work within a Crisis, community mental health team or inpatient unit as a nurse, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or occupational therapist Staff, stakeholders and lived experience participants (for WP2 workshop): Eligible participants will be: 1. A stakeholder in Mental Health Act assessment includes as person with lived experience, carer (e.g. partner, family or close friends), staff with direct service user contact, mental health clinical leadership and management, policy maker or charity and voluntary organisation 2. Willing and able to attend either one or both of the workshops Additional criteria for lived experience participants: Previous experience of using their lived experience, whether as a service user or unpaid carer, in a research, educational or service development setting and have experience of a MHA assessment Staff participants WP3 testing and refining The eligible staff participants will be: 1. Staff that work in role and setting which is relevant to prototype intervention being designed in WP2 2. Be willing to be trained and test the prototype intervention 3. Be willing to be interviewed after the testing and share thoughts and ideas User testing criteria: Staff participants to be new to the prototype intervention, i.e. not a participant in any other WP Real-world testing criteria: Staff participants may or may not have been involved in previous work packages. Service user participants WP3 testing and refining Eligible participants will: 1. Have experienced a Mental Health Act assessment within the last year 2. Be able and willing to discuss this experience using the prototype intervention 3. Be aged 18 years and over and under 65 years 4. Have capacity to consent at the time of recruitment
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Service user participant (for WP1 and WP3): Participants will be excluded if: 1. They have a diagnosis of dementia or a brain injury 2. Over 65 years old 3. Do not speak sufficient English to take part without an interpreter 4. Lack of capacity to consent 5. No memory of MHA assessment. Staff, stakeholder and live experience participant (for WP2 co-design workshops): Participants will be excluded if: 1. Have a diagnosis of dementia or a brain injury 2. Over 65 years old 3. Do not speak sufficient English to take part without an interpreter 4. Lack of capacity to consent Staff participants (for WP1 and WP3): None specified
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed