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A study will track forensic mental health patients and services in Ireland over time

Recruiting · Health Service Executive, Ireland

What this means

This study will follow patients over time to see how they do. It will also check how services change, such as waiting times and how long people stay.

Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.

Status
Recruiting
Who can join
Ages 18 and over
Where
1 site

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The science

Registered title
Dundrum Forensic Redevelopment Evaluation Study: D-FOREST Study.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
observational
Conditions
Schizophrenia, Forensic Psychiatry, Outcome Measure, Violence, Personality Disorders, Recovery, Obesity, Type II Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, Frailty, Psychosis, Treatment-resistant Schizophrenia
Sponsor
Health Service Executive, Ireland
Ages
18 Years to no maximum
Dates
First posted Oct 12, 2021 · updated Oct 12, 2021

Registry summary

The DUNDRUM Forensic Redevelopment Evaluation study (D-FOREST study) is a multi-site comprehensive evaluation of a complete National Forensic Mental Health Service. The study will have a prospective, observational, longitudinal design which will permit the evaluation of benefit over time for individual patients, groups of patients and the evaluation of the benefit in terms of service based outcomes of the redevelopment of a complete National Forensic Mental Health Service e.g. effects on waiting list times, length of stay. The study will systematically evaluate multiple domains of recovery in a complete National Forensic Service, including patients' physical health, mental health, offending behaviours and social and occupational functioning.

Sites (1)

  • National Forensic Mental Health Service, Central Mental Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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