Specialty: Mental Health, Primary sub-specialty: Psychosis
Conditions
Interventions
Patients will be randomised to either the intervention or control. The allocation ratio will be 2:1 in favour of the intervention. Randomisation will be stratified by NHS Trust, ensuring balance betwe
about once per month.
The intervention should start with a sufficiently long first two meetings (about 60 minutes) in the first month to
Sponsors
Noclor, East London NHS Foundation Trust
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients: 1. 18-65 years old 2. Diagnosis of psychosis-related condition (ICD-10 F20-29) 3. Capacity to provide informed consent 4. Ability to communicate in English 5. Limited social network size and low quality of life (Score less than 5 on MANSA quality of life assessment and less than 7 consecutive days with social contacts in the previous week) Clinicians: 1. Mental health professional with experience of providing community mental health care (e.g. psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists) 2. Aged 18-65 years old 3. Employed by participating NHS Trusts 4. Capacity to provide informed consent 5. Ability to communicate in English
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients: 1. Does not meet inclusion criteria 2. Primary problem of current drug addiction 3. No capacity to provide written informed consent 4. An inpatient on a psychiatric ward at the time of recruitment Clinicians: 1. Does not meet inclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of life measured by the Manchester Short Assessment for Quality of Life (Priebe et al., 1999) at baseline and at 6 months | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The number and quality of social contacts on each day of the previous week will be measured using Social Contacts (SCA) (Giacco et al., 2016), including detailed questions about social activities as developed in the ongoing PGfAR VOLUME (on volunteering in mental health) and including questions of the Time Use Survey (Priebe et al., 2016) at baseline and at 6 months 2. Positive and negative symptoms assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS, Kay 1991 and Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS, Kring et al., 2013) at baseline and at 6 months 3. Loneliness assessed using UCLA-8 (Hays and DiMateo, 1987) at baseline and at 6 months | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed