Effect of joint crisis plans on use of compulsory treatment in psychiatry: single blind randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether a form of advance agreement for people with severe mental illness can reduce the use of inpatient services and compulsory admission or treatment.

Design

Single blind randomised controlled trial, with randomisation of individual patients. The investigator was blind to allocation.

Setting

Eight community mental health teams in southern England.

Participants

160 people with an operational diagnosis of psychotic illness or non-psychotic bipolar disorder who had experienced a hospital admission within the previous two years.

Intervention

The joint crisis plan was formulated by the patient, care coordinator, psychiatrist, and project worker and contained contact information, details of mental and physical illnesses, treatments,

SUBMITTER: Henderson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC478218 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature