Status:

COMPLETED

Transition Into Primary-care Psychiatry (TIPP)

Lead Sponsor:

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

Collaborating Sponsors:

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

St. Joseph's Health Care London

Conditions:

Mental Disorders

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-65 years

Phase:

PHASE2

PHASE3

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 d...

Detailed Description

The TIPP service will consist, at both the London and Thunder bay sites, of: (i) a mental health care nurse (B.Sc.N.) with at least several years experience as an outpatient mental health service clin...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • (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.

Exclusion

  • 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.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2005

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 1 2006

Estimated Enrollment :

40 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00260013

Start Date

January 1 2005

End Date

January 1 2006

Last Update

March 23 2010

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St. Joseph's Care Group Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, P7B 5G4