Plain English Summary
Not provided at time of registration
Trial website
http://weba.iop.kcl.ac.uk/departments/?locator=355&project=10117
Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Louise Howard
ORCID ID
Contact details
PO29 Section of Community Mental Health
Health Services Research Department
Institute of Psychiatry
De Crespigny Park
London
SE5 8AF
United Kingdom
l.howard@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
CHOICES
Study hypothesis
Primary hypothesis:
Women admitted to women's crisis houses have higher levels of satisfaction with services compared with women admitted to traditional psychiatric wards.
Secondary hypotheses:
Women admitted to women's crisis houses compared with women admitted to traditional psychiatric wards:
1. Perceive themselves to be less stigmatised on follow-up
2. Have fewer service contacts and lower costs of care
3. Have a higher quality of life
4. Have fewer unmet needs
5. Feel they are less coerced
6. Have a greater improvement in symptomatology
Ethics approval
National Hospital for Neurology REC gave provisional ethical approval on the 30th of November 2006 (reference number is 06/Q0512/104).
Study design
Patient preference randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Other
Trial type
Quality of life
Patient information sheet
Condition
Any psychiatric disorder requiring admission to hospital or women's crisis house.
Intervention
Admission to women's crisis house compared with admission to traditional psychiatric wards.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Satisfaction with services.
Secondary outcome measures
1. Stigma
2. Coercion
3. Contact with services and costs
4. Quality of life
5. Unmet needs
6. Symptoms
Overall trial start date
01/02/2007
Overall trial end date
31/12/2007
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
All consenting women requiring admission as a psychiatric inpatient or women's crisis house resident.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Female
Target number of participants
75
Participant exclusion criteria
Women who do not consent to take part in the study.
Recruitment start date
01/02/2007
Recruitment end date
31/12/2007
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
PO29 Section of Community Mental Health
London
SE5 8AF
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Institute of Psychiatry (UK)
Sponsor details
King's College London
De Crespigny Park
London
SE5 8AF
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7848 0121
l.davison@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Sponsor type
Research organisation
Website
Funders
Funder type
Research council
Funder name
Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK) (Ref: G0401241; grant ID: 71994)
Alternative name(s)
MRC
Funding Body Type
government organisation
Funding Body Subtype
National government
Location
United Kingdom
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2010 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20679277
Publication citations
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Results
Howard L, Flach C, Leese M, Byford S, Killaspy H, Cole L, Lawlor C, Betts J, Sharac J, Cutting P, McNicholas S, Johnson S, Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of admissions to women's crisis houses compared with traditional psychiatric wards: pilot patient-preference randomised controlled trial., Br J Psychiatry Suppl, 2010, 53, s32-40, doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.081083.