A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of a Health Champion Intervention

King's College London100 enrolled

Overview

This study is a pilot RCT to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation challenges of an intervention using volunteer 'Health Champions' matched with service users to support service their physical health goals.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

100

Conditions

Schizophrenia Bipolar Disorder Major Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Health Champions interventionOTHER

Health Champions are trained volunteers who will support service users with their physical health goals over 9 months, meeting once a week

Control group-treatment as usualOTHER

Participants will receive treatment as usual from their Community Mental Health Team

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Older than 18 years old with a serious mental illness (Mood \[affective\] disorders \[F30-F39\], Schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional, and other non-mood psychotic disorders \[F20-F29\]). * Currently with a Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). * Want to make changes to their physical health. * Has capacity to give written informed consent to take part in the project. * Able to provide a named Care Coordinator or Point of Contact reachable in the event of a health crisis. Exclusion Criteria: * • Under 18 years of age * Unable to give informed consent

Locations (1)

King's College London

London, United Kingdom

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

EQ-5D-3L

Physical health related quality of life measure-The descriptive system element of the EQ-5D questionnaire produces a 5-digit health state profile that represents the level of reported problems on each of the five dimensions of health. A higher score indicates poorer health. into a single summary number.

Time frame: Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months

Secondary Outcomes

Recovering Quality of Life Questionnaire-ReQOL

Mental health related quality of life with minimum score of 0 and maximum of 40 The minimum score is 0 and the maximum is 40, where 0 indicates poorest quality of life and 40 indicates the highest quality of life

Time frame: Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months

Patient Activation Measure

Measure of self management The responses match the respondents to one of four levels of 'activation', each of which reveals insight into a range of health-related characteristics, including behaviours and outcomes.

Time frame: Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months

Multimorbidity Treatment Burden Questionnaire

Burden of illness with minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 50 with higher score indicating higher burden

Time frame: Change in outcome from baseline at 9 months and 15 months

De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale

Measure of loneliness. There are negatively (1-3) and positively (4-6) worded items. On the negatively worded items, the neutral and positive answers are scored as "1". Therefore, on questions 1-3 score Yes=1, More or less=1, and No=0. On the positively worded items, the neutral and negative answers are scored as "1". Therefore, on questions 4-6, score Yes=0, More or less=1, and No=1. This gives a possible range of scores from 0 to 6, which can be read as follows: (Least lonely) 0 - (Most lonely) 6

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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