Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Professor David Kingdon
ORCID ID
Contact details
1st Floor
University Department
Department of Psychiatry
Royal South Hants Hospital
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
S014 0YG
United Kingdom
+44 023 8082 5054
dgk@soton.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0230111580
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
To assess whether vocational advisers improve the occupational status of people with severe mental illness who express a desire to find work when asked by their mental health care coordinator.
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
Other
Trial type
Quality of life
Patient information sheet
Condition
Severe mental illness
Intervention
Patients will be asked at Care Programme Approach reviews if they wish to seek part-time or full-time employment. Those who do will be included in the study up to a limit of 100 patients. They will be randomised to control group (advice and training) or intervention group (direct assistance from vocational adviser) stratified by the local mental health team. The randomisation will be done from sealed envelopes kept independently from the study participants.
Added 29 July 2008: the trial was stopped due to a change in objectives.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Primary endpoint would be a 20% increase in patients in employment in the intervention group.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
14/06/2002
Overall trial end date
14/06/2004
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Change in trial objectives
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Mental health patients who are currently being seen by defined Locality Mental Health Teams (LMHTs) will be screened at Care Programme Approach review meeting and a total of 108 patients will be recruited to allow for an 80% chance of finding a difference of 20% between the groups.
Inclusion criteria:
1. Diagnosis of schizophrenia, affective or severe neurotic disorder duration - at least one year
2. No regular paid employment in past year
3. Gives informed consent to participation in study
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
100
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Primary diagnosis of substance abuse (but not excluding people with dual diagnoses of substance misuse and severe mental illness)
2. Primary diagnosis of organic mental illness (eg dementia)
Recruitment start date
14/06/2002
Recruitment end date
14/06/2004
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
1st Floor, University Department
Southampton
S014 0YG
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
West Hampshire Consortium (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
Not published