NCT04745507

Implementation, Efficacy and Costs of Inpatient Equivalent Home-Treatment in German Mental Health Care

Outreach Crisis Intervention With a Team-based and Integrative Model of Treatment (AKtiV Study): Evaluation of the Inpatient Equivalent HomeTreatment (IEHT According to the German Social Code Book §115d SGB V) - a Proof-of-Concept Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 629 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit GmbH · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The "inpatient-equivalent home treatment"(IEHT) according to §115d SGB-V is a particular version of the internationally well-known and evidence-based Home Treatment. As a complex intervention, IEHT requires a multi-method evaluation on different levels in the German context. The AKtiV study that is financed by the Innovation Fund of the Federal Joint Committee (proposal ID: VSF2\_2019-108) meets this request. In this quasi-experimental study with a propensity score-matched control group, we assess and combine quantitative and qualitative data. Outcome parameters include classical clinical ones such as hospital readmission rates, mental state, and recovery outcomes. In addition, it evaluates issues concerning the right target population, treatment processes, implementation strategies, and factors associated with positive outcomes. The study takes into account the perspective of patients, relatives, staff as well as decision makers in politics and administration. Therefore, we expect the results to be relevant for a broad audience and to contribute to further refinement and adaption of the model.

Detailed description

The overarching goal of the AKtiV trial is to examine implementation processes, treatment processes, clinical efficacy, costs, and subjective experiences of IEHT following §115d of the German Social Code Book Five (SGB-V)compared to inpatient treatment from the perspective of service users, relatives or rather informal care givers' , staff and other stakeholders in mental health care. To maximize transferability of study results and to cover a broad spectrum of IEHT experience, 10 hospitals from different regions of Germany (e.g. rural, urban, east, west) participate in this study. Combining routine data, primary data and prospective follow-up data, the study results will be based/ involve a comprehensive database. Further, the combination of clinical and health economic data will enable the assessment of costs and benefits from a national perspective, a particularity of importance, given that there are only a few studies with health economic evidence of acute outreach mental health care. The qualitative evaluation of processes and out-comes of IEHT uses a collaborative-participatory approach that aligns with current demands for more user orientation and/ or involvement of people and researchers with lived experience in the process of developing interventions and their evaluation. The mixed-methods design of the trial corresponds with current standards of empirical social research enabling the triangulation of hypothesis-confirming, quantifiable factors and hypothesis-generating, qualitative aspects. By parallelizing on one hand quantitative and qualitative data and on the other hand routine data with primary data, data on implementation processes and data on treatment processes, different facets from different perspectives and levels of IEHT are targeted. This allows for a comprehensive, holistic assessment of this innovative treatment offer.

Conditions

• Mental Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Schizo Affective Disorder
• Anxiety Disorders
• Eating Disorders
• Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Inpatient Equivalent Home Treatment	At-home psychiatric treatment by means of a multiprofessional clinic team (an equivalent to stationary psychiatric care).

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2023-06-30
• First posted: 2021-02-09
• Last updated: 2022-03-16

Locations

10 sites across 1 country: Germany