NCT00278811

Emergency Linkage to Outpatient Psychiatric Services

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare two different kinds of follow-up care and their effects on psychiatric service use and psychological well-being. This randomized, controlled trial of subjects discharged from the psychiatric emergency services to outpatient care receive traditional hospital-based outpatient clinic referrals (treatment as usual) or appointments for community-based follow-up by a mobile crisis team.

Detailed description

There are subgroups of patients who only seek care in emergency settings. An effective strategy to link that group to ambulatory care involves extending contact with psychiatric emergency services beyond the initial hospital-based visit. The "window of opportunity" to promote successful treatment linkage is brief. This is a study of a novel treatment format that seeks to expand the concept of the emergency contact, the study patients method of entering the mental health system of care, and by doing this, enhance retention in prescribed outpatient care. The effects of the intervention on patient symptoms and mental health service use will be examined.

Conditions

• Emergency Services, Psychiatric

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	mobile crisis team

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-04-01
• Primary completion: 2006-03-01
• Completion: 2006-03-01
• First posted: 2006-01-18
• Last updated: 2015-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States