Early Youth Engagement in first episode psychosis (EYE-2) RCT
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Early Youth Engagement in first episode psychosis (EYE-2) study: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of implementation, effectiveness & cost effectiveness of a team-based motivational engagement intervention to improve engagement
IRAS ID
238744
Contact name
Kathryn Greenwood
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 1 months, 31 days
Research summary
Psychosis is a severe mental health problem that generally starts in people aged 14-35. Approximately, 7,500 young people in England develop psychosis every year. People with psychosis die up to 25 years earlier than the general population and the financial cost to society is high. Early Intervention can improve long term outcomes so that people have fewer symptoms and hospital admissions, better health, and reduced suicides. Yet, a quarter of all young people drop out of services in the first 12 months leading to greater risk of poor health and service use. Ensuring that young people receive a service quickly is an NHS priority, but there are no interventions to improve engagement.
This project is about improving services for people who have a first episode of psychosis so that more people want to stay with the service. The first Early Youth Engagement (EYE) project developed a new intervention with young people, parents and Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) staff. The intervention includes a website, booklets and other resources; and a training programme for staff in how to work flexibly and openly using key, well established “motivational” techniques to help young people achieve their goals. Our pilot study, improved engagement at 12 months.
We now want to test the EYE intervention with 880 young people in 23 EIP services in Manchester, London, Norfolk, Cambridge and the South of England: half the services will deliver the EYE intervention and half will work as usual. We will adapt EYE resources for people from minority populations and will evaluate how the intervention is delivered. The measure of success will be whether more young people stay engaged in the service, as well as whether they have better mental and physical health, work and social life, recovery, service satisfaction, and whether the approach saves money.
REC name
London - Dulwich Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/LO/0362
Date of REC Opinion
11 May 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion