Psychologically Informed Acute Mental Health Care vs TAU
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Psychologically Informed Acute Mental Health Inpatients Care Plus Treatment as Usual versus Treatment as Usual Alone.
IRAS ID
168661
Contact name
Charlotte Paterson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Edinburgh Napier University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 1 days
Research summary
Intervention in adult acute mental health services in the UK are predominantly medical, access to psychological intervention remains limited. There is a growing arguement to increase the provision of psychological input in acute mental health services, however further research is necessary to evidence its' full potential.
Due to a redesign at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital (REH) an opportunity has risen to investigate the effectiveness of a cross diagnostic, psychological model of intervention (based on Clarke and colleagues model) in an acute mental health service. The model will offer individual therapy involving individual therapy and CBT based ‘third wave’ group therapy to inpatients. It will also offer Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) skills based training and basic CBT skills training to all ward staff. Furthermore, weekly group reflective practice will be on offer for staff along with clinical supervision. This will be applied aside treatment as usual (TAU).
The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this cross diagnostic, psychological model (CBT model) plus TAU in an acute mental health service (intervention ward) and compare it to an acute mental health service receiving just TAU (control ward). Effectiveness will be measured using patient data (i.e. length of stay and readmission data), standardised clinical outcome measures (i.e. CORE-10 and Brief Symptoms Inventory (BSI)) and theoretical measures (i.e. self-efficacy, locus of control, mindfulness and compassion. A total of 160 inpatients will be recruited across both wards to complete a series of questionnaires at 3 data collection points(pre, post treatment and 12 month follow-up).
REC name
South East Scotland REC 01
REC reference
15/SS/0093
Date of REC Opinion
16 Jul 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion