Homelessness Prevention: Psychiatric Care With Representative Payeeship - Full Text View

Sponsor:	Department of Veterans Affairs
Information provided by:	Department of Veterans Affairs
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00057161

Purpose

Money management is a neglected issue in maintaining persons with mental illness in the community. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed whether a community-based representative payee program, i.e., money management of Social Security and/or VA benefits, coordinated with VA psychiatric care (CO-RP) could be more effective than customary treatment for veterans who had no representative payee.

Condition	Intervention
Mental Illness	Behavioral: Coordinated Representative Payeeship with Case Management

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Open Label, Dose Comparison, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Homelessness Prevention: Psychiatric Care With Representative Payeeship

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Child Mental Health Mental Health

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Department of Veterans Affairs:

Estimated Enrollment:	240
Study Completion Date:	June 2004

Arms	Assigned Interventions
1	Behavioral: Coordinated Representative Payeeship with Case Management

Detailed Description:

Background:

Money management is a neglected issue in maintaining persons with mental illness in the community. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed whether a community-based representative payee program, i.e., money management of Social Security and/or VA benefits, coordinated with VA psychiatric care (CO-RP) could be more effective than customary treatment for veterans who had no representative payee.

Objectives:

After 184 subjects were randomly assigned to CO-RP experimental group or customary care control group, hypotheses were that the CO-RP group would experience: 1) more frequent enrollment in the representative payee program, 2) improved residential status, 3) improved health-related quality of life, including less mental illness symptomatology, 4) less substance abuse, 5) improved money management.

Methods:

Six-month interviews were completed on 152 of 184 possible subjects (83%) and 12-month interviews were completed on 149 of 184 possible subjects (81%). The six and twelve-month outcomes were analyzed with analysis of covariance using data from the baseline pretest.

Status:

Completed.

Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Severe mental illness; Inability to manage money; VA patient

Exclusion Criteria:

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00057161

Locations

United States, Illinois
Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital
Hines, Illinois, United States, 60141-5000

Sponsors and Collaborators

Department of Veterans Affairs

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Kendon J. Conrad, MA PhD MSPH

Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital

More Information

Publications:

Conrad KJ, Lutz G, Matters MD, Donner L, Clark E, Lynch P. Randomized trial of psychiatric care with representative payeeship for persons with serious mental illness. Psychiatr Serv. 2006 Feb;57(2):197-204.

Conrad KJ, Matters MD, Luchins DJ, Hanrahan P, Quasius DL, Lutz G. Development of a Money Mismanagement Measure and cross-validation due to suspected range restriction. J Appl Meas. 2006;7(2):206-24.

Conrad KJ, Wright BD, McKnight P, McFall M, Fontana A, Rosenheck R. Comparing traditional and Rasch analyses of the Mississippi PTSD Scale: revealing limitations of reverse-scored items. J Appl Meas. 2004;5(1):15-30.

Responsible Party:	Department of Veterans Affairs ( Conrad, Kendon - Principal Investigator )
Study ID Numbers:	IIR 98-154
Study First Received:	March 27, 2003
Last Updated:	October 31, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00057161 History of Changes
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Mental Disorders

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 30, 2009