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Contact the study team using the details below to take part. If there are no contact details below please ask your doctor in the first instance.
Dr
Amanda
perry
amanda.perry@york.ac.uk
Pip
Hearty
pip.hearty@york.ac.uk
Dr
Amanda
perry
amanda.perry@york.ac.uk
Dr
Amanda
perry
amanda.perry@york.ac.uk
Lisa
Hesselden
l.hesselden@nhs.net
Persons encountering health services for examination and investigation
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What is the problem?
Many people in prison have mental health problems. Current treatments focus on the individual, but recent evidence supports a more holistic, prison-based approach. We will evaluate a new, brief and simple peer-led Problem Support Mentor Scheme (PSMS) that is disseminated across the whole prison site.
How will we address this problem?
We will examine a toolkit to implement the PSMS in prisons, assess whether the PSMS can improve quality of life, symptoms of depression, NHS resource use and whether it reduces the number of self-harm and violent incidents. We will assess the cost-effectiveness of the PSMS and evaluate whether it makes a difference to people following release from prison using a ‘through the gate’ volunteering opportunity.
Who will conduct the work?
Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds will collaborate with an ex-prisoner representative, a prison service lead, the prison radio association, a third sector organization, one social enterprise, one private healthcare provider, one NHS Trust and multiple prison sites.
How will patients and the public be involved?
People already involved in the scheme from two prisons have helped to form this proposal. They helped us develop the idea, gather views about NHS prison services and identify potential problems. Prison staff and prisoners will be involved in making changes and deciding how the scheme should run in their prison site. Prisoners, an ex-prisoner, and an external service user group will tell people about their involvement in the study.
How will we tell people about the findings of our research?
Prisoners and prison staff will be involved in prison radio broadcasts. Prisoners will write an article for a national prison newspaper (Inside Time) and will co-present the findings at a conference. Information will be shared on the prison service intranet. We will publish the findings in an academic journal.
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Type: Psychological & Behavioural;Complex Intervention;
You can take part if:
You may not be able to take part if:
Mentors (i) current markers of bullying or violence in the previous six months, (ii) pose risk to the researcher, (iii) are not due for release (iv) are on ‘basic’ level of living, (v) cannot speak or understand English (vi) are not due for release within the local area (vii) are not able to complete a brief record sheet of self-report measures which will be read to each participant, (viii) have not been in the prison for at least 12 months Surveys (i) those deemed as either too unwell or do not have the mental capacity to complete the survey (e.g., have a diagnosed learning disability or displaying physical symptoms of drug or alcohol withdrawal). This will be determined by prison healthcare, safer custody, and wing staff. Any concerns on behalf of the researcher with regards to the fitness of the individual will be referred to the prison GP for a secondary opinion. Interviews (i) pose a risk to researcher (ii) cannot speak or understand English
Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.
Dr
Amanda
perry
amanda.perry@york.ac.uk
Pip
Hearty
pip.hearty@york.ac.uk
Dr
Amanda
perry
amanda.perry@york.ac.uk
Lisa
Hesselden
l.hesselden@nhs.net
Dr
Amanda
perry
amanda.perry@york.ac.uk
The study is sponsored by University of York and funded by NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) .
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