COCAPP-A: Collaborative Care Planning Project-Acute
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Cross-national comparative study of recovery-focused mental health care planning in acute inpatient mental health settings (COCAPP-A)
IRAS ID
151422
Contact name
Alan Simpson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
City University London
Research summary
The National Institute for Health Research has commissioned us to find out how mental health care is planned and organised in inpatient mental health services, and to see how these processes relate to recovery and personalisation. Following a review of literature and policy in this area we will collect quantitative and qualitative data in six NHS Trust/Health Board 'case study' sites in England and Wales.
In each site we will investigate local care planning policy and practice, and approaches to personalised and recovery-focused care. We will read and analyse local policy and other documents and access routinely collected data. We will interview inpatient staff, service users and carers using interview guides developed in consultation with our project advisory group. We will ask samples of professional staff, service users and carers to complete questionnaires measuring experiences of inpatient care, recovery, therapeutic relationships and empowerment.
We also want to find out about experiences of care at the face-to-face level from service users, carers and staff. To do this, in each site we will interview six service users (36 in total), their carers (up to 36) and inpatient staff (36 in total) about their experiences of care planning and care coordination and with their permission, read and analyse their actual documented care plans. Our interview guide has been developed with the help of people currently using mental health services.
In our analysis of the data we collect we will build up a detailed account of policy, practice and experiences in each site. We will compare and contrast what we find in each area, and see how far national aspirations towards recovery and personalisation are reflected. We will draw on all of our data to identify components associated with recovery-focused and personalised care planning and coordination.
REC name
London - Fulham Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/LO/2062
Date of REC Opinion
29 Dec 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion