The CORE service improvement programme for mental health crisis resolution teams: results from a cluster-randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Crisis resolution teams (CRTs) offer brief, intensive home treatment for people experiencing mental health crisis. CRT implementation is highly variable; positive trial outcomes have not been reproduced in scaled-up CRT care.

Aims

To evaluate a 1-year programme to improve CRTs' model fidelity in a non-masked, cluster-randomised trial (part of the Crisis team Optimisation and RElapse prevention (CORE) research programme, trial registration number: ISRCTN47185233).

Method

Fifteen CRTs in England received an intervention, informed by the US Implementing Evidence-Based Practice project, involving support from a CRT facilitator, online implementation resources and regular team fidelity reviews. Ten control CRTs received no additional support. The primary outcome

SUBMITTER: Lloyd-Evans B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511901 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature