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Filter by:The study aims to test the effectiveness of a nurse-led psycho-education program based on motivational interviewing technique for Chinese patients with first-onset mental illness over a 12-month follow-up. A randomized controlled trial will be conducted with 180 Chinese patients with schizophrenia newly referred to one outpatient clinic in Hong Kong. They will be randomly assigned to either the eight-session nurse-led psycho-education program or usual psychiatric outpatient care (both n=90). The patients' general and mental health, illness insight, self-efficacy, services utilization, and hospitalization rates were measured at recruitment and one week, six months and 12 months post-intervention. Note: Those who were approached in the clinic and not eligible to participate in this trial will be invited to participate in another controlled trial. The controlled trial tests the effects of a self-help problem-solving based bibliotherapy program (SPBB) for Chinese family caregivers in recent onset psychosis (not more than 1 year onset) at one psychiatric clinic, in comparison to routine outpatient service and family support (control group) for 116 randomly selected family caregivers of outpatients with psychotic disorders over a 6-month follow-up.)
Clinical social workers, doctors, outreach workers, and all other staff providing direct care to vulnerable populations face multiple challenges in obtaining and maintaining training and implementing evidence based practices in diverse community settings. Motivational Interviewing is a well-established evidence based practice that is challenging to implement across programs and agencies because it requires that skills gained from training be reinforced as a service provider employs the practice. This study builds on findings from a Phase I study. With funding from a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of Health, the Center for Social Innovation developed the Motivational Interviewing Simulator: An Experiential Online Training Tool. The interactive, case-based, multiplayer web-based game allows service providers to deepen their skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI), a widely recognized evidence-based practice that supports people to make positive behavior changes related to health, wellness, mental illness, and addiction. The Phase II randomized controlled trial's primary aim is to assess the relative effectiveness of three interventions (MI Training Only; MI Training + eBook; MI Training + SIM) in increasing provider MI knowledge and skill retention over time. During Phase II of this study, we will recruit 180 providers from 18 community agencies serving individuals who live in supportive housing, many of whom have histories of mental illness, addiction, homelessness, and medical problems. After receiving a standardized two-day onsite MI training, participants will be randomized into one of three conditions: 1) MI Training Only; 2) MI Training + eBook (an online comparison with comparable information to the Simulator without the interactive elements); or 3) MI Training + Simulator. The longitudinal, mixed methods study will assess providers' acquisition and retention of MI knowledge and skills through surveys and coding of standardized client interviews; barriers and facilitators of MI implementation via focus groups; organizational-level data via key informant interviews and site visits; and client outcomes for 3,600 clients through surveys, administrative, data and focus groups.
This project aims to study health outcomes of individuals with mental illness attending a co-located primary health care center in a mental health center. This study uses mixed methods to collect a range of information about who chooses to use what Wellness Center services and in what combinations, with what short and longer-term effects and with what outcomes. Based on participant interviews, identify barriers to and facilitators of access, service, and improvements in person-centered outcomes and elicit suggestions for enhancing health care outcomes and choice. Collaborate with persons in recovery in using the data collected through Aims 1 and 2 to develop and pilot the effectiveness of a new peer-led community based intervention in enhancing access and choice and improving person-centered health outcomes.
Efficacy of transitional case management following psychiatric hospital discharge: a randomized trial Background The movement of deinstitutionalisation in Western societies has modified the role of psychiatric hospital, which has lost its asylum function to become a place for acute care. Psychiatric stays are now shorter and close interactions with the outpatient care network is therefore more critical than before. The first weeks following discharge from psychiatric hospital represent a period of high risk for relapse, readmission or even suicide. Case management has a proven efficacy in facilitating patients' deinstitutionalisation after very long hospitalisations and in stabilizing high users of psychiatric care. In contrast, studies exploring the impact of time limited case management following discharge from short stays (transitional case management) in earlier phases of psychiatric disorders in connection with primary care are lacking. Working Hypotheses The investigators hypothesize that transitional case management following hospital discharge decreases risk of readmission, improves adherence to outpatient care, facilitates recovery and improves patients' satisfaction with treatment as compared to routine care. Specific Aims In this study, the investigators will compare the impact of both intervention on number of contact and level of adherence to outpatient care. The investigators will also compare both groups on number of readmission, risk of early aggravation of the disorders, level of functioning and satisfaction with care. Methods This is a randomized single-blind study comparing transitional case management after discharge with routine post-hospitalization care for subjects living independently without institutional psychiatric follow-up. Demographic and clinical data will be gathered during hospitalization, and 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after discharge. Quantitative assessment of outcomes using validated instruments will be: contact and level of adherence to outpatient care (primary outcomes), as well as number of hospitalization days, number of readmissions, severity of illness and satisfaction with care (secondary outcomes). Expected Value of the Proposed Project This study should improve psychiatric patients follow-up in collaboration with the different levels of care in the global context of deinstitutionalization.
The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility and the effects of family-based interventions for children (aged 5-12) with neuropsychiatric and psychiatric disorders in Finnish health care settings.
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are serious and debilitating mental illnesses that incur substantial suffering for patients and major challenges to the investigators health care and legal systems. The prodrome is the period prior to onset of psychosis when functional decline and clinical symptoms gradually emerge. The presence of a clinical high-risk (CHR) syndrome in young adults is associated with heightened risk (25-35%) for the later development of psychosis, and for those who do not necessarily go on to develop a psychotic illness, research has suggested that the majority continue to have fluctuating subthreshold symptoms and poor social and role functioning. There are no specific treatments to help with these functional difficulties. However, recent findings suggest that in people with schizophrenia, Cognitive Behavioral and Social Skills Training (CBSST) leads to significantly greater increase in the frequency of social functioning activities compared to treatment as usual or goal-focused supportive therapy, and preliminary data suggest CBSST is a feasible treatment for CHR. This proposal is a competitive application for a three-site, longitudinal study aimed at testing the effectiveness and feasibility as well as mediators and mechanisms of action of a manualized CBSST intervention that will target functional difficulties associated with clinical risk states for psychosis. The goals are 1) to examine whether CBSST compared to a placebo intervention (psychoeducation) matched for group involvement and therapist time improves functioning in youth at CHR and 2) to determine whether reduction in defeatist beliefs and improvement in social competence mediate change in psychosocial functioning in CHR youth in the CBSST. In this single-blind randomized 2-arm trial participants will be randomized to one of two treatments: CBSST, an 18-week group comprised of three modules; 1) Cognitive Skills; 2) Social Skills; and 3) Problem Solving, or a psychoeducation support group that does not teach active cognitive behavioral therapy or social skills training. Over a five-year period, the multi-site collaboration will follow large CHR sample that will undergo comprehensive assessments of psychosocial and behavioral changes, to examine changes in social and role functioning, as well as symptom changes from baseline to the end of treatment, and to 6 month follow-up. This approach will demonstrate the feasibility of a treatment for which it is easy to train therapists and which can readily be disseminated to regular clinical community practice. In addition, it will provide insights into likely approaches to halting or mitigating the pathological process and advance the investigators understanding of risk prediction; both critical steps in prevention.
Project CONNECT ("Community-based Organizations Neighborhood Network: Enhancing Capacity Together") is a randomized controlled trial that involves 22 community-based organizations (CBOs) located in Baltimore, MD. Half of these organizations were randomly assigned to the intervention group using a constrained cluster randomization process. The remaining 11 are a part of the control intervention group. The intervention is a co-developed set of IT tools hypothesized to improve the connections among intervention CBOs, Johns Hopkins health care facilities and CBO clients.
This open-label, non-randomized, prospective study will evaluate the risk of symptoms recurrence during the three years after antipsychotic discontinuation in a sample of functionally recovered first-episode patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
The purpose of this study is to determine the usability of the Medical Information Device #1 (MIND1) system in adults with schizophrenia who are treated with oral aripiprazole.
The objective of this multi-site research collaboration is to test the manifestation and distribution of biological markers for psychosis and affect dimensions across the schizophrenia/bipolar (SZ-BD) diagnostic boundary, and to examine heritability and genetic associations for these biological markers.