George Szmukler

Joint Crisis Plans reduce coercive treatment

Methods Design: Single blind randomized controlled trial. Setting: Eight community mental health teams in southern England. Participants: 160 people with psychotic or bipolar disorder who had had a hospital admission within the previous two years. Intervention: The joint crisis plan was formulated by the patient, care coordinator, psychiatrist, and project worker and contained contact information, details of mental and physical illnesses, treatments, indicators for relapse, and advance statements of preferences for care in the event of future relapse.