Leaving Early Intervention Services - A student study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
What personal, social and support resources are needed by people leaving Early Intervention in Psychosis Services to promote recovery afterwards? Exploring experiences of discharge and transition from the perspectives of service-users and staff members - A student Study
IRAS ID
291452
Contact name
Sonia Johnson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University College London
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Z6364106/2021/07/81, UCL Data protection office
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 3 months, 14 days
Research summary
This study is part of a PhD project exploring ways to improve the support offered to people leaving Early Intervention in Psychosis services (EIPS) and what might help with recovery afterwards. EIPS offer specialist support for people who experience psychosis for the first time, for up to three years. Although EIPS have been found to help many people using these services with their experiences of psychosis, whether there are long-term benefits is unclear and of people who need support from emergency mental health services afterwards, many do so within a year of being discharged. There is currently no specific support available for people who have left EIPS and limited guidance for professionals about how to support people during discharge. We hope this research may provide useful information to support these developments.
In this study, we hope to find out what might help people to progress with their recovery after leaving EIPS from the perspectives of people moving on to other services and professionals who support them. We will interview 16-24 people leaving EIPS during discharge and again, three to nine months later. We will also conduct group and one-to-one interviews with 15-21 professionals working in EIPS and services that people move on to. Fully informed consent will be obtained and recorded for everyone wishing to take part in the study. People taking part will be interviewed using video or telephone calls, or in-person, depending on their preference and social distancing restrictions. We will also record the personal characteristics of people who take part, such as age, gender and ethnicity, to ensure that our study represents the views and experiences of the diverse range of people who use EIPS. Interviews will be recorded and then written up by a professional transcription service, before being analysed by the research team.REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/LO/0874
Date of REC Opinion
8 Feb 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion