Psychosis and bipolar affective disorder Mental and Behavioural Disorders Psychosis and bipolar affective disorder
Conditions
Interventions
Active intervention: Joint Crisis Plan production
Introductory meeting
Having informed the participant and their keyworker of the allocation, the research worker arranged a meeting between himself, t
either the differences are made clear but the JCP retains this title as other contents have been agreed jointly, or, the document is renamed a crisis card because of the lack of joint agreement
During
Sponsors
King's College London (UK)
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients had first to be currently under the care of one of the recruited community mental health teams. 2.On the day on which the clinical casenotes were consulted to retrieve diagnostic and sociodemographic information, the patient had to have been admitted to a psychiatric inpatient service at least once in the previous two years. 3. They had to have a diagnosis of psychotic illness or bipolar affective disorder without psychotic symptoms, operationalised from the clinical casenotes using the Operational Criteria Checklist, OPCRIT5, which uses a computer algorithm to assign diagnoses according to International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth edition (ICD-10), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth edition (DSM-IV) and a number of other diagnostic criteria. Patients were not recruited while staying on a psychiatric ward but if otherwise eligible they were contacted once they had been discharged or sent on extended leave.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Inability to understand the JCP's function through mental incapacity or insufficient command of English to understand the consent procedure.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Hospital admission 1. Admitted or not 2. Compulsory admission 2.1. Compulsory admission without police involvement 2.2. Compulsory admission with police involvement 3. Number of days spent in hospital 4. Discharged or not | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Not provided at time of registration | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed