A crisis planning and monitoring intervention to reduce compulsory hospital readmissions (FINCH study): protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rates of compulsory (also known as involuntary) detention under mental health legislation have been rising over several decades in countries including England. Avoiding such detentions should be a high priority given their potentially traumatic nature and departure from usual ethical principles of consent and collaboration. Those who have been detained previously are at high risk of being detained again, and thus a priority group for preventive interventions. In a very sparse literature, interventions based on crisis planning emerge as having more supporting evidence than other approaches to preventing compulsory detention.

Method

We have adapted and manualised an intervention previously trialled in Zürich Switzerland, aimed at reducing future compulsory detention

SUBMITTER: Johnson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10877855 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature