Enhancing Referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: EnCAMHS

Mental Health Issue Clinical Trial

— EnCAMHS  

Official title:

Enhancing CAMHS Referrals: EnCAMHS

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05412368
• Other study ID #: NIHR131379
• Status: Completed
• Start date: November 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Our aim is to find low-cost and widely reusable mechanisms to reduce inappropriate referrals. Our key objectives are:

Engage with key stakeholders to identify problems with making appropriate referrals Analyse CAMHS referral data to understand and identify problems (quantitatively) Identify requirements for sustainable solutions Explore with key stakeholders how we can improve the referral process Identify how the best proposed solutions could be embedded within routine CAMHS referral pathways

Description:

The Investigators shall conduct a series of focus groups with key stakeholders involved in the referral to CAMHS process; children and young people (CYP), parents/carers, key referrers, CAMHS professionals in order to better understand the challenges that exist with the current referral process. Following this, the Investigators will conduct further focus groups with the key stakeholders above, in which they will suggest sustainable solutions to the problems that have been identified.

The Investigators shall then identify how the propose solutions can be embedded into routine CAMHS referral pathways.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 110
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged 16 years and above

• have experience of CAMHS referral pathway

Exclusion Criteria:

• younger than 16 years

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mental Health Issue

Intervention

Other:
• Focus Groups
Focus Groups

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	University of Manchester	Manchester

Sponsors (9)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust	42nd Street, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, McPin Foundation, MQ Mental Health, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Solutions to enhance the referral process for CAMHS	Solutions to help improve the referrals into CAMHS, using data collected during focus groups	By end of study - within 1 year