Do Consumer Providers Enhance Recovery?
Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00781079. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
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Official title
Promoting Recovery Using Mental Health Consumer Providers
Brief summary
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Serious mental illness (SMI) is the second most costly disorder treated in the VHA, yet clinical outcomes for these patients in public sector settings are often poor due to a combination of low quality care and severe cognitive and functional impairments evidenced by this group. While these problems are multifaceted, studies outside the VHA have shown that using "consumer providers" (CPs) can improve and augment public care. Similar to recovering addiction counselors, CPs are individuals with SMI who use their lived experiences to provide services to others with SMI. CPs can reach out to patients that are difficult to engage, assist patients with tasks of daily living, offer a variety of rehabilitation (vocational, social, residential) services, be role models and offer hope for recovery, and facilitate support groups. Randomized controlled and quasi-experimental trials, all done outside the VHA, have shown that CPs can provide services that yield at least equivalent patient outcomes with particular benefits noted on intensive case management teams. Based on these successes both the President's New Freedom Commission and the Veteran Administration's Mental Health Strategic Plan call for broader dissemination of CPs as way to make mental health services more recovery-oriented, a recent national priority. Because of these recent calls, employing mentally ill veterans has just begun, although no effort has been made to evaluate their impact inside the VA mental health system. Yet its success outside the VHA and the recent emphasis on recovery-oriented care suggests the need to test this model in the VHA.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00781079
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 285 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- Not listed
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 2008 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Apr 2011 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jan 2012 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Oct 11, 2018
2008 – 2012
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 7
- U.S. states
- 4
- U.S. cities
- 7
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, Loma Linda, CA | Loma Linda | California | 92357 | — |
| VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA | Long Beach | California | 90822 | — |
| VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA | San Diego | California | 92161 | — |
| VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA | West Los Angeles | California | 90073 | — |
| Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN | Indianapolis | Indiana | 46202-2884 | — |
| VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, North Las Vegas, NV | Las Vegas | Nevada | 89106 | — |
| VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15240 | — |
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