Continuity of Care and the Experience of Recovery
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Continuity of Care and Experience of Recovery in Community Mental Health Teams
IRAS ID
239325
Contact name
Martin Webber
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of York
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 1 days
Research summary
This research will investigate whether there is a relationship between continuity of care and experience of recovery, for service users under Care Programme Approach (CPA) in Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs).
Care Coordinators are often the first point of contact for service users in distress and often meet the most regularly with them, compared to other mental health professionals involved in a service user’s care. Because of this, they arguably have the best knowledge of the service user. However, staff changes, and other changes, to care in CMHTs can be frequent. This means service users, sometimes within the space of a few months, may have multiple different care coordinators. As a result, service users and professionals often end up spending time getting to know each other in their first few meetings, rather than continuing wherever the service user may have last left off with a previous care coordinator.
In order to address the research question, service users under CPA in two CMHTs in the London Borough of Hillingdon who have an allocated care coordinator, are able to read and write in English, will be invited to take part in research consisting of three questionnaires measuring basic demographics, experiences of continuity of care and experience of the recovery process. In order to control for other factors that may contribute to experience of recovery, data on diagnosis, engagement with Care Coordinator and time they have been under Care Coordination will also be collected and measured against their current experience of recovery.
This research may have the potential to inform and influence how care coordinators are recruited, allocated and changed in the future within the particular teams being tested.
REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
18/IEC08/0015
Date of REC Opinion
17 Apr 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion