Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Peter Tyrer
ORCID ID
Contact details
St Mary's Hospital Medical School
Patterson Centre
20 South Wharf Road
London
W2 1PD
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7886 1648
p.tyrer@ic.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
RDC00940
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
The feasibility of a proposed large-scale study to evaluate the effectiveness of liaison psychiatry in general practice by randomly allocating GP practices to (a) psychiatric services delivered to primary care (experimental group) and (b) psychiatric services delivered in secondary care (control group), will be examined in the study.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
GP practices
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Schizophrenia and other psychoses; depression, anxiety, neuroses
Intervention
1. Psychiatric services delivered to primary care (experimental group)
2. Psychiatric services delivered in secondary care (control group)
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
1. Clinical psychopathology
2. Social adjustment
3. Service costs
4. Service satisfaction.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
30/04/1998
Overall trial end date
31/12/1998
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Patients with mental health problems who had been referred to psychiatric services in the last 6 months.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
84 (added 07/01/10)
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not match inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
30/04/1998
Recruitment end date
31/12/1998
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
St Mary's Hospital Medical School
London
W2 1PD
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
NHS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7307 2622
dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Executive London (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
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
2002 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12111030
Publication citations
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Results
Emmanuel JS, McGee A, Ukoumunne OC, Tyrer P, A randomised controlled trial of enhanced key-worker liaison psychiatry in general practice., Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 2002, 37, 6, 261-266, doi: 10.1007/s00127-002-0550-y.