Mental illness
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: New service users who meet the following four criteria: 1) Receiving support from a multidisciplinary outreach team consisting of three or more professions. 2) Commencing the utilization of services from each team between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2027. 3) Diagnosis of a mental disorder based on the ICD-10 criteria. 4) Age under 55 years old. Family members who meet the following two criteria: 1) Family members who reside with the participating service users in the survey, live in close proximity to the service users, or frequently visit the service users' residence. 2) key caregivers within the family members.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Service Users: 1) Service users who, at the start of service utilization, cannot be provided with research explanatory materials. 2) Service users who register with a multidisciplinary outreach team for temporary purposes. 3) Service users for whom tracking is anticipated to be difficult due to personal reasons (e.g., moving in the near future). Family Members: Individuals who have decision-making problems such as dementia that raise doubts about their capacity to provide informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of Life (Recovering Quality of Life - 10 items: ReQoL-10) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patient-reported outcome measures (assessed annually) - Personal agency Five-item Subjective and Personal Agency scale: SPA-5) - Loneliness (the 10-item UCLA Loneliness Scale: UCLA-LS-10) - Mental health (Patient Health Questionnaire-2: PHQ-2) - Well-being (A single-item scale) Staff-rated outcome measures (assessed annually) - Hospitalization - Physical health (Charlson Comorbidity Index: CCI) - Medication prescription and adherence - Service utilization within the team - Service utilization outside the team - Symptoms (Clinical Global Impression: CGI) - Functioning (12-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule: WHO-DAS-12) Family-reported outcome measures (assessed annually) - Quality of life (Recovering Quality of Life - 10 items: ReQoL-10) - Well-being (A single-item scale) - Caregiver burden (8-item Zarit Burden Index: ZBI-8) - Family Relationships (Family Questionnaire: FQ) - Questions on Living and Economic Conditions (Original 2 items) | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Community Mental Health & Law