Linking Psychological Therapies Service outcomes data with health data
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Linking Psychological Therapies Service outcomes data with hospital admissions and prescriptions data
IRAS ID
270440
Contact name
Kevin Dyer
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Research and Development Office, Northern Health and Social Care Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 30 days
Research summary
\nThe Psychological Therapies Service (PTS) provides a wide range of therapies for adults with moderate/severe mental health difficulties within a stepped-care framework. To date, analyses on Access, Effectiveness, and Acceptability data collected by PTS has allowed many aspects of service provision to be evaluated and actual improvements to clinical practice to be made Data collected by mental (e.g. PTS) and physical health services (e.g. hospitals) are typically separated, limiting the opportunity for patterns between these two factors to be uncovered in order to inform therapeutic practice. Linking therapy service data with wider health care data would allow therapy impact to monitored over a wider range of outcomes and on a longer term basis without increasing respondent burden. The proposed project will link 7000 PTS client outcome records (used the service between 2009 and 2019) to hospital admissions and prescriptions data. Data linkage methodology provides the most feasible method of incorporating such data into the PTS outcomes database. Other methods such as self-report would be unworkable for a variety of reasons (e.g. significant service user burden, time demands on therapist, retrospective self-report biases, and insufficient clinical detail). Honest Broker Service will provide us with data to select matched case controls from, using deprivation, gender and age as match variables. This linkage project will tell us, for PTS clients and case controls, the prevalence of: hospital admissions due to mental and physical health conditions; and prescriptions for mental-health conditions. Further the impact of PTS on health conditions/prescriptions use will be examined and factors influencing the effectiveness of PTS therapy will be explored.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/YH/0375
Date of REC Opinion
8 Nov 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion