Facilitating Carer Involvement Across Different Services CAPRI
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Good practices and barriers to Carer involvement Across the care Pathway of people with seveRe mental Illness (CAPRI study)
IRAS ID
261694
Contact name
Domenico Giacco
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Barts Health NHS Trust
Research summary
This project will build on the work carried out during the ongoing CLAHRC North Thames funded project, which focused on carer involvement during acute mental health care in London. The present study includes two work packages (WP) that will run simultaneously.
In the first (WP1) we plan to disseminate an online training programme for clinicians to four different NHS sites in England:Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys, Cornwall and East London (sites: East London, Luton and Bedfordshire). Clinicians will receive training that aims to facilitate carer involvement in inpatient services. The training is around 30 minutes and we will train two clinicians (champions) per site (eight in total) to use the training output in their clinical routine with service users and carers. We will contact all champions after two months (via personal meetings and/or phone) to explore their experiences through open-ended questions and in-depth interviews. Champions will also provide quantitative information of implementation indexes (how many service users approached, with how many they used the learned procedures, length of meetings).
At the same time (WP2), we aim to shed a light on barriers, facilitators and potentially on unpublished good practices for carer involvement in discharge planning and transition between hospital and community mental health care. For this purpose we will carry out one focus-group in each site, with the participation of three clinicians, two service users and two carers (28 participants across sites). Participants will be encouraged to share their views of the role of carers in the transition between hospital and community services. This will generate ideas for future interventions to improve those transitions, possibly based on existing experiences and good practices.REC name
East Midlands - Leicester Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/EM/0144
Date of REC Opinion
15 Apr 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion