Vocational advisers in mental health teams
ISRCTN | ISRCTN98775322 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN98775322 |
Secondary identifying numbers | N0230111580 |
- Submission date
- 12/09/2003
- Registration date
- 12/09/2003
- Last edited
- 29/07/2008
- Recruitment status
- Stopped
- Overall study status
- Stopped
- Condition category
- Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data
Record updated in last year
Plain English summary of protocol
Not provided at time of registration
Contact information
Professor David Kingdon
Scientific
Scientific
1st Floor, University Department
Department of Psychiatry
Royal South Hants Hospital
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
S014 0YG
United Kingdom
Phone | +44 023 8082 5054 |
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dgk@soton.ac.uk |
Study information
Study design | Randomised controlled trial |
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Primary study design | Interventional |
Secondary study design | Randomised controlled trial |
Study setting(s) | Other |
Study type | Quality of life |
Scientific title | |
Study objectives | 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(s) | Not provided at time of registration |
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied | 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 |
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 study start date | 14/06/2002 |
Completion date | 14/06/2004 |
Reason abandoned (if study stopped) | Change in trial objectives |
Eligibility
Participant type(s) | Patient |
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Age group | Not Specified |
Sex | Both |
Target number of participants | 100 |
Key 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 |
Key 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) |
Date of first enrolment | 14/06/2002 |
Date of final enrolment | 14/06/2004 |
Locations
Countries of recruitment
- England
- United Kingdom
Study participating centre
1st Floor, University Department
Southampton
S014 0YG
United Kingdom
S014 0YG
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Department of Health (UK)
Government
Government
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Website | http://www.doh.gov.uk |
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Funders
Funder type
Government
West Hampshire Consortium (UK)
No information available
Results and Publications
Intention to publish date | |
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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
IPD sharing plan summary | Not provided at time of registration |
Publication and dissemination plan | Not provided at time of registration |
IPD sharing plan |