Transition Into Primary-care Psychiatry (TIPP)

NCT00260013 | Completed Phase 2

• 3 other identifiers: R-04-093G03-0568710349E
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The objective of the Transition into Primary-care Psychiatry (TIPP) project is to determine how feasible it is to conduct a study to evaluate a new primary-care focused program of mental health care delivery for people with chronic mental illness. This will be done by comparing a primary-care based collaborative, interdisciplinary model to care-as-usual on health related quality of life, client symptomatology, client's perceived need of care, participant satisfaction and cost-effectiveness.

Conditions

Mental Disorders

Keywords

chronic mental illness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Quality of Well Being

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Symptomatology

• Perceived need for care

• Satisfaction

• Cost Effectiveness

Interventions

program of care delivery PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• (1) receiving outpatient psychiatric clinic services through the St. Joseph's Care Group Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital in the Community Mental Health Services program, Thunder Bay, Ontario or at the Regional Mental Health Care, Specialized Adult Service, London, Ontario 2) 18-65 years of age; 3) chronic moderate to severe mental illness - all scores below severe or very severe rating on the Threshold Assessment Grid; 4) duration of mental illness of at least 2 years; 5) not regularly receiving psychiatric or mental health care from another family physician, and; 6)capable of understanding the nature of the project and can give consent.

You may not qualify if:

• Clients will be excluded if at the time of recruitment they:
• have an unstable mental illness;
• had a psychiatric hospitalization admission within the last past 6 months;
• used crisis intervention within the past 6 months (requiring subsequent contact greater than once per week);
• had a history of self-harm over the past 6 months;
• had a history of harm to others over the past 6 months;
• had drug and alcohol problems over the past 6 months that would contribute significantly to clinical destabilization;
• have unmet major psychosocial needs (including homelessness and marked poverty), and;
• are experiencing a serious medical illness that is unstable and that contributes to instability of mental illness.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's: lead
• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care: collaborator
• St. Joseph's Health Care London: collaborator
• St. Joseph's Care Group: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

St. Joseph's Care Group Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital

Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5G4, Canada

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• David RS Haslam, MSc MD FRCPC

  St. Joseph's Health Care London

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• John M Haggarty, BSc MD FRCPC

  St. Joseph's Care Group

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2005
• First Posted: December 1, 2005
• Study Start: January 1, 2005
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2006
• Study Completion: January 1, 2006
• Last Updated: March 23, 2010

Record last verified: 2010-03

Locations

CA (1)