Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Schizophrenia
Conditions
Brief summary
This study is a pilot RCT to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation challenges of an intervention using volunteer 'Health Champions' matched with service users to support service their physical health goals.
Interventions
OTHERHealth Champions intervention
Health Champions are trained volunteers who will support service users with their physical health goals over 9 months, meeting once a week
OTHERControl group-treatment as usual
Participants will receive treatment as usual from their Community Mental Health Team
Sponsors
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
King's College London
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Older than 18 years old with a serious mental illness (Mood \[affective\] disorders \[F30-F39\], Schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional, and other non-mood psychotic disorders \[F20-F29\]). * Currently with a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). * Want to make changes to their physical health. * Has capacity to give written informed consent to take part in the project. * Able to provide a named Care Coordinator or Point of Contact reachable in the event of a health crisis.
Exclusion criteria
* • Under 18 years of age * Unable to give informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-5D-3L | Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months | Physical health related quality of life measure-The descriptive system element of the EQ-5D questionnaire produces a 5-digit health state profile that represents the level of reported problems on each of the five dimensions of health. A higher score indicates poorer health. into a single summary number. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Recovering Quality of Life Questionnaire-ReQOL | Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months | Mental health related quality of life with minimum score of 0 and maximum of 40 The minimum score is 0 and the maximum is 40, where 0 indicates poorest quality of life and 40 indicates the highest quality of life |
| Patient Activation Measure | Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months | Measure of self management The responses match the respondents to one of four levels of 'activation', each of which reveals insight into a range of health-related characteristics, including behaviours and outcomes. |
| Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire | Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months | Burden of illness with minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 50 with higher score indicating higher burden |
| De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale | Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months | Measure of loneliness. There are negatively (1-3) and positively (4-6) worded items. On the negatively worded items, the neutral and positive answers are scored as 1. Therefore, on questions 1-3 score Yes=1, More or less=1, and No=0. On the positively worded items, the neutral and negative answers are scored as 1. Therefore, on questions 4-6, score Yes=0, More or less=1, and No=1. This gives a possible range of scores from 0 to 6, which can be read as follows: (Least lonely) 0 - (Most lonely) 6 |
| Health screenings in last 6 months | change in number of health screenings from baseline at 9 months and 15 months | Number of health screenings in last 6 months |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed