Status:
COMPLETED
Improving Safety and Quality in Mental Healthcare
Lead Sponsor:
King's College London
Collaborating Sponsors:
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Conditions:
Mental Illness
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
Background: Patient safety incidents are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. So far, existing safety improvement work has largely focused on physical healthcare. Only a small body of r...
Detailed Description
Background: Patient safety problems are widespread. Research suggests that around 10% of inpatients experience an adverse event during their hospital admission, with almost half of these incidents ju...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Service users.
- Inclusion criteria:
- Over 18 years old.
- Able to speak sufficient English to provide informed consent to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Current or prior experience of using general adult community-based mental health services (within the past 12 months).
- Exclusion criteria:
- Unable to speak sufficient English to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Unable to give informed consent to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Currently receiving inpatient mental healthcare at a psychiatric hospital, or care from a service for older adults.
- Deemed by the researcher to be distressed or too unwell to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Their experience of services primarily falls outside of the remit of general adult mental health services, e.g. they have a primary diagnosis of Substance Use Disorder, or their care is provided by specialist tertiary care providers such as forensic mental health services.
- Carers.
- Inclusion criteria:
- Over 18 years old.
- Able to speak sufficient English to provide informed consent to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Current or prior experience of caring for an individual accessing general adult community-based mental health services (within the past 12 months).
- Exclusion criteria:
- Unable to speak sufficient English to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Unable to give informed consent to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Carers who have a caring responsibility for:
- A child (0-17 years),
- An individual using older adult mental health services,
- An adult using services which fall outside of the remit of general adult mental health services,
- Someone without a mental health problem.
- Healthcare professionals.
- Inclusion criteria:
- Over 18 years old.
- Able to speak sufficient English to provide informed consent to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Currently employed within a community-based service which provides general adult mental healthcare.
- Exclusion criteria:
- Unable to speak sufficient English to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Unable to give informed consent to take part in an interview or focus group.
- Healthcare professionals who are currently working in a mental health service which:
- Is not based in a community setting (e.g. inpatient care),
- Falls outside of the remit of general adult mental health services,
- Provides services to children (0-17 years) or older adults.
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 10 2021
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 28 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
43 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04866693
Start Date
May 10 2021
End Date
February 28 2022
Last Update
March 2 2022
Active Locations (1)
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London
London, Greater London, United Kingdom, SE5 8AF