NCT04124744

A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of a Health Champion Intervention

A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of a Volunteer Health Champion Intervention to Support People With Severe Mental Illness to Improve Their Physical Health

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: King's College London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a pilot RCT to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation challenges of an intervention using volunteer 'Health Champions' matched with service users to support service their physical health goals.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar Disorder
• Major Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Health Champions intervention	Health Champions are trained volunteers who will support service users with their physical health goals over 9 months, meeting once a week
OTHER	Control group-treatment as usual	Participants will receive treatment as usual from their Community Mental Health Team

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-02
• Primary completion: 2022-01-30
• Completion: 2022-05-30
• First posted: 2019-10-11
• Last updated: 2020-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom