Critical Time Intervention-Task Shifting: Randomized Controlled Trial
NCT ID: NCT01995864
Last Updated: 2020-06-25
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
110 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2014-02-28
2020-06-01
Brief Summary
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This is a pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of Critical Time Intervention-Task Shifting (CTI-TS). It is designed to address a fundamental gap in the services offered by mental health clinics. These clinics are the primary locale for outpatient treatment of individuals with severe mental disorders in the urban areas of Latin America, and they offer some basic and important clinical care such as pharmacologic treatment onsite. Generally these clinics also have a major limitation; they have inadequate resources and training for the provision of in vivo community-based services, that is, services delivered outside of the clinic facility in homes or elsewhere in the community. In most urban areas, they also have weak links to primary health care and are not easily accessible to much of the population.
CTI-TS, is a task shifting intervention that at the service user level provides support for better community living and promotes social integration, and at the system level strengthens the connections between mental health and primary care clinics. CTI-TS is a time-limited 9-month intervention provided at the critical time when a person is first offered services at a mental health clinic. During this period CTI-TS workers forge relationships that will shape the continuing use of services and enhance the potential for recovery over the subsequent course of time. The overall goal of CTI-TS is to improve the lives of those with severe mental disorders who receive community-based mental health care.
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Detailed Description
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The CTI-TS program is concerned with improving supports for people recovering from episodes of mental illness. Examples of areas where extra support may be provided include medication management, housing or crisis management, help with the family, help obtaining good services from mental health centers and primary health centers, and help developing social relationships in the community.
The program is provided by a CTI-TS team, including a community mental health worker and a peer support worker (someone who has used mental health services in the past, and has recovered). All of the CTI-TS activities will last 9 months. The evaluation of how people fare will last 18 months. The activities of CTI-TS will be in addition to the usual care provided by the subject's local health service. Usual care might include meeting with a mental health professional, meeting with a social worker, and/or obtaining prescriptions for medicine. This study will compare how people fare who have participated in the CTI-TS activities against the group of people who received only the regular services of this community mental health center. As part of the study, a trained researcher will meet with each subject for an interview at the beginning of the project, again 9 months later, and again after 18 months. These interviews will ask questions about how the subject is doing with his/her health and quality of life, and if the subject is getting help or support with problems.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
SINGLE
Study Groups
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CTI-TS
CTI-TS is a time-limited, 9-month long intervention, provided at the critical time when a person is first offered services at a mental health clinic, or, at the similarly critical time when a person first seeks to reconnect with a mental health clinic after a long lapse.
CTI-TS
The following briefly describes the three phases of CTI-TS:
Phase 1: Initiation: The client and CTI-TS team formulate a treatment plan that focuses on selected areas identified as crucial for strengthening stability and facilitating the assimilation of the individual into community living.
Phase 2: The Try-Out phase is devoted to testing and adjusting the support systems that have been established in the community.
Phase 3: The final phase, Transfer of Care, is devoted to making any necessary improvements in the network of supports of the individual.
Usual Care
The Usual Care group will receive mental health services as provided by the local mental health services clinic.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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CTI-TS
The following briefly describes the three phases of CTI-TS:
Phase 1: Initiation: The client and CTI-TS team formulate a treatment plan that focuses on selected areas identified as crucial for strengthening stability and facilitating the assimilation of the individual into community living.
Phase 2: The Try-Out phase is devoted to testing and adjusting the support systems that have been established in the community.
Phase 3: The final phase, Transfer of Care, is devoted to making any necessary improvements in the network of supports of the individual.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* No longer than 6 months since the first visit to the MHS (excluding visits that took place more than one year ago).
* Any psychotic disorder (chart diagnosis) from the following groups (ICD-10 criteria):
F20-29 including schizophrenia, delusional disorders, schizotypal disorders, acute polymorph psychotic disorders, schizoaffective disorders
F30-39 the following mood \[affective\] disorders with psychoses:
F30.2 Mania with psychotic symptoms F31.2 Bipolar affective disorder, current episode manic with psychotic symptoms F31.5 Bipolar affective disorder, current episode severe depression with psychotic symptoms F32.3 Severe depressive episode with psychotic symptoms F33.3 Recurrent depressive disorder, current episode severe with psychotic symptom
Exclusion Criteria
* Active suicidal ideation.
* Substance Abuse or Dependence alone (may have psychotic symptoms but does not meet criteria for diagnoses included).
* Serious cognitive or other sensorial impairment which is likely to preclude reliable assessment via our interview procedures.
21 Years
65 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIH
Columbia University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Ezra S. Susser, MD, DrPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry
Principal Investigators
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Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Columbia University
Graciela Rojas, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Chile
Sandro Galea, MD DrPH
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Boston University
Ruben Alvarado, MD PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Chile
Locations
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, , Brazil
University of Chile
Santiago, , Chile
Countries
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References
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Yang LH, Valencia E, Alvarado R, Link B, Huynh N, Nguyen K, Morita K, Saavedra M, Wong C, Galea S, Susser E. A theoretical and empirical framework for constructing culture-specific stigma instruments for Chile. Cad Saude Colet. 2013;21(1):71-79. doi: 10.1590/s1414-462x2013000100011.
Baumgartner JN, Susser E. Social integration in global mental health: what is it and how can it be measured? Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2013 Mar;22(1):29-37. doi: 10.1017/S2045796012000303. Epub 2012 May 25.
Minoletti A, Galea S, Susser E. Community Mental Health Services in Latin America for People with Severe Mental Disorders. Public Health Rev. 2012;34(2):http://www.publichealthreviews.eu/show/a/116. doi: 10.1007/BF03391681.
Herman D, Opler L, Felix A, Valencia E, Wyatt RJ, Susser E. A critical time intervention with mentally ill homeless men: impact on psychiatric symptoms. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2000 Mar;188(3):135-40. doi: 10.1097/00005053-200003000-00002.
Jones K, Colson PW, Holter MC, Lin S, Valencia E, Susser E, Wyatt RJ. Cost-effectiveness of critical time intervention to reduce homelessness among persons with mental illness. Psychiatr Serv. 2003 Jun;54(6):884-90. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.6.884.
Herman DB, Conover S, Gorroochurn P, Hinterland K, Hoepner L, Susser ES. Randomized trial of critical time intervention to prevent homelessness after hospital discharge. Psychiatr Serv. 2011 Jul;62(7):713-9. doi: 10.1176/ps.62.7.pss6207_0713.
Susser E, Valencia E, Conover S, Felix A, Tsai WY, Wyatt RJ. Preventing recurrent homelessness among mentally ill men: a "critical time" intervention after discharge from a shelter. Am J Public Health. 1997 Feb;87(2):256-62. doi: 10.2105/ajph.87.2.256.
Agrest M, Le PD, Yang LH, Mascayano F, Alves-Nishioka S, Dev S, Kankan T, Tapia-Munoz T, Sawyer S, Toso-Salman J, Dishy GA, Jorquera MJ, Schilling S, Pratt C, Price L, Valencia E, Conover S, Alvarado R, Susser ES. Implementing a community-based task-shifting psychosocial intervention for individuals with psychosis in Chile: Perspectives from users. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2019 Feb;65(1):38-45. doi: 10.1177/0020764018815204.
Baumgartner JN, da Silva TF, Valencia E, Susser E. Measuring social integration in a pilot randomized controlled trial of critical time: intervention-task shifting in Latin America. Cad Saude Colet. 2012 Jan;20(4):10.1590/S1414-462X2012000400005. doi: 10.1590/S1414-462X2012000400005.
Yang L, Pratt C, Valencia E, Conover S, Fernandez R, Burrone MS, Cavalcanti MT, Lovisi G, Rojas G, Alvarado R, Galea S, Price LN, Susser E. RedeAmericas: building research capacity in young leaders for sustainable growth in community mental health services in Latin America. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2017 Feb 14;4:e3. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2017.2. eCollection 2017.
Mascayano F, Alvarado R, Andrews HF, Jorquera MJ, Lovisi GM, Souza FM, Pratt C, Rojas G, Restrepo-Toro ME, Fader K, Gorroochurn P, Galea S, Dahl CM, Cintra J, Conover S, Burrone MS, Baumgartner JN, Rosenheck R, Schilling S, Sarucao KR, Stastny P, Tapia E, Cavalcanti MT, Valencia E, Yang LH, Susser E. Implementing the protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial for the recovery-oriented intervention to people with psychoses in two Latin American cities. Cad Saude Publica. 2019 May 2;35(4):e00108018. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00108018.
Mascayano F, Alvarado R, Andrews HF, Baumgartner JN, Burrone MS, Cintra J, Conover S, Dahl CM, Fader KM, Gorroochurn P, Galea S, Jorquera MJ, Lovisi GM, Mitkiewicz de Souza F, Pratt C, Restrepo-Toro ME, Rojas G, Rodrigues Sarucao K, Rosenheck R, Schilling S, Shriver T, Stastny P, Tapia E, Cavalcanti MT, Valencia E, Yang LH, Restrepo Henao A, Martinez-Ales G, Romero Pardo V, Gomez Alemany T, Susser E. A Recovery-Oriented Intervention for People With Psychosis: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychiatr Serv. 2022 Nov 1;73(11):1225-1231. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000843. Epub 2022 Jun 9.
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RedeAmericas is a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded regional network or 'hub' for public mental health research in Latin America.
Other Identifiers
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AAAI1845
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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