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PACT for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness

NCT01668355 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 331

Last updated 2020-02-28

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Summary

People with serious mental illness have difficulty making good use of primary care, and die, on average, years earlier than others in the population. The greatest contributors to this premature mortality are medical illnesses, especially cardiovascular disease and cancer. The Patient Centered Medical Home is a model for reorganizing primary care practice so that healthcare is more effective, efficient, and user-friendly. It has been implemented across VA as the, "Patient Aligned Care Team" (PACT). It is unclear, however, how this PACT model applies to people whose predominant illness is treated by specialists. This is the case for people with serious mental illness (SMI), many of whom receive ongoing treatment at mental health clinics. To achieve optimal health outcomes in the population with SMI, it may be necessary to adapt the PACT model so that it includes approaches that have proven to improve healthcare in this population. This project implements an adapted "SMI-PACT" model, and evaluates its effect on Veterans with SMI.

Conditions

  • Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT)

An integrated healthcare model to coordinate and address physical health needs of people with serious mental illness. This specialized PACT medical home model is designed for individuals with serious mental illness.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Alexander S Young, MD MSHS · VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-01
Primary Completion
2019-02-06
Completion
2019-02-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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