Moving beyond randomized controlled trials in the evaluation of compulsory community treatment
Moving beyond randomized controlled trials in the evaluation of compulsory community treatment
Compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illness remains controversial due to conflicting research evidence. Recently, there have been challenges to the conventional view that trial‐based evidence should take precedence. This paper adds to these challenges in three ways. First, it emphasizes the need for critiques of trials to engage with conceptual and not just technical issues. Second, it develops a critique of trials centred on both how we can have knowledge and what it is we can have knowledge of. Third, it uses this critique to develop a research strategy that capitalizes on the information in large‐scale datasets.
clinical effectiveness, compulsory community treatment, mental health policy, randomized controlled trials, realist evaluation
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Bhui, Kamaldeep
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Canaway, Alastair
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Crepaz-Keay, David
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Keown, Patrick
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Madan, Jason
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McBride, Orla
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Parsons, Helen
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Duncan, Craig, Weich, Scott, Moon, Graham, Twigg, Liz, Fenton, Sarah Jane, Bhui, Kamaldeep, Canaway, Alastair, Crepaz-Keay, David, Keown, Patrick, Madan, Jason, McBride, Orla, Parsons, Helen and Singh, Swaran
(2020)
Moving beyond randomized controlled trials in the evaluation of compulsory community treatment.
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 26 (3), , [13245].
(doi:10.1111/jep.13245).
Abstract
Compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illness remains controversial due to conflicting research evidence. Recently, there have been challenges to the conventional view that trial‐based evidence should take precedence. This paper adds to these challenges in three ways. First, it emphasizes the need for critiques of trials to engage with conceptual and not just technical issues. Second, it develops a critique of trials centred on both how we can have knowledge and what it is we can have knowledge of. Third, it uses this critique to develop a research strategy that capitalizes on the information in large‐scale datasets.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 July 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 July 2019
Published date: 1 June 2020
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This work was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (project number 14/52/40). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, NIHR, NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC), the Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) programme, or the Department of Health.
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All authors received financial support from the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Programme for the submitted work.
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clinical effectiveness, compulsory community treatment, mental health policy, randomized controlled trials, realist evaluation
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