Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Clive Holmes
ORCID ID
Contact details
Memory Assessment and Research Centre
Moorgreen Hospital
West End Road
Southampton
SO30 3JB
United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8047 5216
c.holmes@soton.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0230152978
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Is the introduction of Locality Link Nurses (LLNs) a conducive way of supporting patients post discharge?
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
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Psychiatric disorder
Intervention
Following consent procedures obtained in the week prior to discharge from the in-patient ward (Minstead Ward, Western Hospital) baseline measurements, including demographics and ICD-10 diagnoses, of all patients will be documented. In addition, patients will be assessed using the Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly, the Mini Mental State Examination and Geriatric Depression Scale. 140 admissions will then be randomised to receive normal follow up arrangements alone or early follow up with the Locality Link (LLN) nurse in addition to normal follow up arrangements. All patients will be reassessed in the community using the Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly, the Mini Mental State Examination and Geriatric Depression Scale at 6 weeks post discharge. Re-admission rates to the ward will be monitored for all patients in one year post discharge.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
1. To determine whether early post discharge nursing intervention reduces need as assessed by the Camberwell assessment of need for the elderly
2. To identify what factors pre and post discharge (demographic, psychiatric morbidity and patient needs) are associated with early readmission
3. To identify whether early post discharge nursing intervention reduces early psychiatric readmission rates
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
26/11/2004
Overall trial end date
25/11/2005
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
140 consenting subjects from Minstead Ward, Western Hospital.
Inclusion Criteria. All consenting patients with an ICD 10 diagnosis for functional psychiatric illness admitted to the functional psychiatric ward at the Western Hospital (Minstead Ward).
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Senior
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
140
Participant exclusion criteria
Patients fulfilling ICD 10 diagnoses for dementia.
Recruitment start date
26/11/2004
Recruitment end date
25/11/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Memory Assessment and Research Centre
Southampton
SO30 3JB
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health
Sponsor details
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
West Hampshire Consortium (UK) NHS R&D Funding
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
2006 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17066881
Publication citations
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Results
Ashton PA, Woolhouse S, Clark S, Hopkins V, Wilkinson D, Holmes C, The effect of link nurses on hospital readmission rates., Nurs Times, 102, 42, 34-35.