The participants of these study are patients of the Rehabilitation-team for homeless psychiatric patients (Rehabteam) of the Mentrum Mental Health Organisation in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and were registered as being homeless at the start of the study. Homeless patients are referred by shelters, police, emergency wards or found by the team itself on the streets. Most of the patients that are registered by the Rehabteam, suffer from psychotic disorders (mainly schizophrenia) and to a lesser extend
Conditions
Interventions
Workers from the Rehabteam of Mentrum Mental Health Organisation in Amsterdam, Netherlands, has in the past decade treated homeless patients via the casemanagement treatment model. The team is formed
treatment during 24 months.
Intervention 2:
Casemanagement team
treatment during 24 months.
Data from the teamworkers/nurses will be collected at the start, after 12 months and after 24 months.
Sponsors
Mentrum Mental Health Organisation
Postbus 75848
1070 AV Amsterdam
tel: (020) 590 50 00
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Registered as patient of the Rehabteam, Mentrum; 2. Diagnosed as having a severe mental illness; 3. Sleeping at least one night outside or in a shelter in the last month.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Severe harddrug addiction.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. More stabile housing in the ACT-group; 2. Less social hindrance (i.e. police contacts); 3. Higher quality of life. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. 'More' psychiatric care (i.e. medication, regaular contacts); 2. In the first 12 months more, in the second year less psychiatric admissions (-days). | — |
Contacts
Public ContactJeroen Bastiaan Zoeteman
Mentrum Mental Health Organisation Rehabteam Sarphatistraat 8-14
Outcome results
None listed