Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Christine Barrowclough
ORCID ID
Contact details
Academic Department of Clinical Psychology
Mental Health Unit
Tameside General Hospital
Ashton-under-Lyne
OL6 9RW
United Kingdom
Christine.Barrowclough@man.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
To test the effectiveness of a needs-based family intervention service for patients recruited as out-patients and their carers, including those of low expressed emotion status.
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
Not specified
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Schizophrenia and other psychoses
Intervention
Intervention group: Needs based intervention service in addition to treatment as usual
Control group: Treatment as usual alone
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/01/1998
Overall trial end date
31/12/1998
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. A clinical International Classification of Diseases, Tenth revision (ICD-10) diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or delusional disorder
2. Minimum of two years history of illness
3. One relapse of psychotic symptoms requiring hospital admission in the two years preceding the study entry
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
Not provided at time of registration
Participant exclusion criteria
Organic brain disease or learning difficulties
Recruitment start date
01/01/1998
Recruitment end date
31/12/1998
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Academic Department of Clinical Psychology
Ashton-under-Lyne
OL6 9RW
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 North West (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
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
Results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10616628
Publication citations
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Results
Barrowclough C, Tarrier N, Lewis S, Sellwood W, Mainwaring J, Quinn J, Hamlin C, Randomised controlled effectiveness trial of a needs-based psychosocial intervention service for carers of people with schizophrenia., Br J Psychiatry, 1999, 174, 505-511.