Adapting a Model for Veterans on a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit

VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Conditions: Serious Mental Illness

Treatments: Behavioral: Adapted critical time intervention team

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01820468

01715

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled study tests an adapted critical time intervention model for veterans discharged from a psychiatric inpatient unit. It is hypothesized that veterans on the inpatient unit who are assigned to such a community-based team will have shorter lengths of inpatient stay and better mental health. There have been few developments of community-based models of care in the post-deinstitutionalization era of short inpatient stays and the results of the study may inform how inpatient stays can be further reduced.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Admitted to the psychiatric inpatient unit for at least 4 days
2. Willing to participate in community-based treatment

Exclusion criteria

1. Actively suicidal or homicidal
2. Dementia
3. Drug or alcohol detoxification
4. Physician emergency certificate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Adapted critical time intervention team

Experimental group

Description:

Community-based team will help facilitate early inpatient discharge and re-entry into the community.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adapted critical time intervention team

Regular inpatient care

No Intervention group