NCT01719354

Aftercare in the Community Health Center

Aftercare in the Community Health Center - a Venue for Identifying and Coordinating Community Services

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a trial to examine the effects of aftercare for mental health patients in community health center (Leistad). Recruitment occurs among hospitalized patients in psychiatric hospitals (Østmarka). After discharge, patients will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: intervention group (community health center, primary care) or control group (Community mental health centers of District Psychiatric Service, specialist care). The project's primary objective is to investigate the effect of community services on patients' functional capacity and user satisfaction after discharge. Secondly, the number of treatment days and readmissions to mental health care will be examined. The project will also compare costs of hospitalization, in psychiatric hospital and community health center respectively. Data will be collected from community health records, medical records and patient systems in psychiatric hospital, community mental health centers of District Psychiatric Service (DPS) and questionnaires filled out by patients.

Conditions

• Mental Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Community Health center	Observation of the functioning and coordination of health care before discharge to own home.
OTHER	Control	standard aftercare in hospital/mental health centers of District Psychiatric Service (DPS).

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2012-11-01
• Last updated: 2017-02-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway