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NCT number NCT02710344
Other study ID # 28105
Secondary ID R01MH107625
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date September 2015
Est. completion date August 2020

Study information

Verified date November 2020
Source Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The overarching aim of this study is to evaluate whether telehealth leads to better mental health outcomes and decreased use of acute and crisis-based mental health care services by randomly assigning 300 people with serious mental illness (SMI) and psychiatric instability receiving services at 1 of 2 community mental health centers (CMHCs), each of which offers integrated behavioral and primary health care, to either Health Home Usual Care alone or telehealth plus Health Home Usual Care for 12 months, with assessments at baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months.


Description:

The overarching aim of this study is to evaluate whether telehealth leads to better mental health outcomes and decreased use of acute and crisis-based mental health care services by randomly assigning 300 people with serious mental illness (SMI) and psychiatric instability receiving services at 1 of 2 community mental health centers (CMHCs), each of which offers integrated behavioral and primary health care, to either Health Home Usual Care alone or telehealth plus Health Home Usual Care for 12 months, with assessments at baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of an automated, algorithmically-driven, customizable telehealth platform that provides education, teaches illness self-management, prompts users to enact coping strategies, and monitors symptoms on a daily basis to remotely detect early warning signs among people with SMI, moving beyond the existing telehealth approaches (mainly educational websites and videoconferencing) for assessing and providing education and therapy to people with SMI. This study has two specific aims. Aim 1 is to compare the effectiveness of telehealth with Health Home Usual Care by measuring improvements at 6 and 12 months in illness self-management, psychiatric symptoms, and health self-efficacy. Aim 2 is to compare the effectiveness of telehealth with Health Home Usual Care by comparing total cost of emergency room visits and hospital days during the 12 months prior to baseline to total costs of emergency room visits and hospital days during the 12 months after baseline. This study will evaluate a widely used automated telehealth program that has been modified and upgraded by the research team to incorporate curriculum drawn from illness self-management interventions for SMI developed by the investigators (i.e., Integrated Illness Management and Recovery (I-IMR) and HOPES). Unlike other telehealth devices, it does not require an internet connection and is an efficient and innovative way to provide illness self-monitoring and self-management education. Responses are entered by the user and forwarded to a secure server via cellular signal. The telehealth specialist will access the server daily through a secure website using a username and password.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 303
Est. completion date August 2020
Est. primary completion date March 2020
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - 18 years of age or older; - Chart DSM-V Axis I diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or major depression and meet criteria for serious mental illness; - Enrolled in treatment at site for at least 3 months; - Psychiatric instability as indicated by 2 or more emergency room visits or hospitalizations in the past year, or multiple calls to the psychiatric crisis line within 3 months (10 or more); - Expressed willingness to participate in a telehealth program; - Must be able to read English. Exclusion Criteria: - Currently residing in a nursing home or group home; - Terminal physical illness which is expected to result in death within one year; - Primary diagnosis of dementia, co-morbid diagnosis of dementia, or significant cognitive impairment as indicated by a Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score <24.

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
Telehealth Program
Psychiatric telehealth program, content assigned based on diagnosis, entry to study requires psychiatric instability defined as use of emergency/high cost psychiatric services.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Greater Nashua Mental Health Center Nashua New Hampshire
United States The Providence Center Providence Rhode Island

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Total Cost of Emergency Room Visits and Hospital Days Cost of emergency room visits and hospital days Change in total cost of emergency room visits and hospital days during the 12 months prior to baseline compared to 12 months after baseline
Secondary Psychiatric symptom severity as assessed using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale psychiatric symptom severity Change in psychiatric symptom severity as assessed using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale from baseline to 3, 6, and 12 months
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