Adult community mental health in 2025. V1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Adult community mental health in 2025: Clinical pathways and outcomes
IRAS ID
340324
Contact name
E Lewis
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Essex
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 31 days
Research summary
A longitudinal study of 200 referrals to an Essex Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). Upon acceptance to the CMHT, service users will be informed about this study and invited to participate. Participation will be framed as entirely optional: service users will be told that participating will not affect their care.
Each participant will complete a CORE-10 questionnaire at the start of the study (time point 1) and again one year later (time point 2). At both time points, participants will also be asked about their ethnicity and relationship, housing, and employment status. During the study, the chief investigator (CI) will also collect supplementary information on participants and their use of NHS services (e.g. age; which CMHT treatments they engage in; A&E/ GP visits; new prescriptions). The CI will collect this information from relevant electronic record systems, and from summaries of GPs' letters and notes.
The CI will perform quantitative analysis on all data to investigate:
1) Whether engaging with the CMHT had a positive effect on users’ psychological wellbeing (as measured by the CORE-10) over one year.
2) What other NHS services participants engaged with while under the CMHT.
3) What proportion of service users were discharged or referred elsewhere from the CMHT (including referrals for specialist physical/ mental health support).
4) Whether outcomes were significantly moderated be other factors (e.g. relationship status).REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/EM/0148
Date of REC Opinion
12 Aug 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion