Assessing Mental Illness Recovery

Completed

Conditions studied: Serious Mental Illness

In brief

In 2003 the VA Undersecretary's Action Agenda mandated that mental health services throughout the system be transformed to a recovery model. That mandate and many of the Workgroup recommendations have since been formalized in the Uniform Mental Health Services Package, which specifies a range of recovery-oriented services that must be available to veterans. A key aspect of these policy mandates is the need to assess recovery status of veterans and to monitor their progress over time as a way to evaluate the effectiveness of recovery services. However, there is no established instrument that is suitable for system-wide application. The purpose of this project is to develop a reliable, valid and practical measure of recovery, and use the measure in a study to better understand recovery in individuals with serious mental illness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01043653

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

250

Starts

2010-01-01

Expected to finish

2013-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-08

Who can join

Age: 25 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• chart diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder I (with mania), or major depression with psychotic features, with a history of a minimum of 2 psychotic exacerbations, or Psychosis NOS
• A minimum of 2 psychotic exacerbations(confirmed by medical record, provider report, or patient self-report);
• Are receiving services from participating study sites and have had a minimum of two service visits within the last 6 months;
• Have received mental health services for a minimum of 3-years;
• Age between 25 and 65;
• Able to provide informed consent; and
• Able to complete protocol assessments (estimation from medical record and/or mental health provider that person can read at 5th grade level and sustain attention to study tasks for required period of time).

You may not qualify if…

• Severe or profound mental retardation as indicated by chart review

Where it is running

• Washington DC VA Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• University of Maryland, Division of Psychiatry — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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