(duplicate) Supporting treatment decision-making in psychosis: The DEC
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Decision-making Capacity Intervention Development & Evaluation in Schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: The DEC:IDES trial
IRAS ID
265638
Contact name
Paul Hutton
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Edinburgh Napier University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 7 months, 29 days
Research summary
Clinicians are legally and ethically obliged to respect patients’ autonomy and the decisions they make about their treatment, unless they lack “capacity” for such decision making. Where capacity is lacking clinicians are obliged to support its return/retention, so they can take part in decision making and avoid involuntary treatment. However, there are no effective and acceptable psychological interventions available to help them do this in practice. This project will test the feasibility of using innovative ‘Umbrella’ trial methodology (this means running several randomised controlled trials in parallel, but within one research project) to both confirm the causes of their impaired treatment decision-making capacity and accelerate the development of an effective psychological intervention. Demonstrating the feasibility of our proposed methodology would also help to accelerate the development of interventions for other mental health problems.
REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
19/WA/0155
Date of REC Opinion
23 May 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion