Is there a crisis about crisis houses?

Obuaya, Chiedu; Stanton, Emma; Baggaley, Martin

doi:10.1177/0141076813498585

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“…Over the past decade, a nationwide drive to reduce and consolidate in-patient psychiatric beds across the UK National Health Service (NHS) has resulted in a concomitant growth in alternative models of intensive care in community settings, including an increase in the number of crisis houses. 1 A crisis house offers provision for people who find themselves in a mental health crisis as a community-based alternative to hospital admission. 2 The Tower Hamlets Crisis House (THCH) offer a short-term, community-based service for people who find themselves in significant mental distress, which is recognised to be potentially less stigmatising, coercive and institutionalised.…”

Section: What Is a Crisis House?mentioning

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Do patients get better? A review of outcomes from a crisis house and home treatment team partnership

Butt

Walls²,

Bhattacharya

2019

BJPsych Bull

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Aims and methodThe Tower Hamlets Crisis House (voluntary sector), in partnership with the local home treatment team, offers a brief residential alternative to psychiatric hospital admission. Here, we review clinician-reported (Health of the Nation Outcome Scales; HoNOS) and patient-reported (DIALOG) outcome scores collected from successive admissions between June 2015 and December 2016, to assess the effectiveness of the service model. We identified 153 successive admissions, and of these, 85 (55.6%) and 91 (59.5%) patients completed both admission and discharge DIALOG and HoNOS questionnaires, respectively. We analysed ten out of twelve HoNOS domains and eight patient-reported outcome measure DIALOG domains.ResultsWe found a statistically significant improvement in nine out of ten domains of HoNOS and three out of eight domains of DIALOG.Clinical implicationsA partnership between a home treatment team and crisis house can result in positive outcomes for patients, as determined by both clinicians and patients.Declaration of interestNone.

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Section: What Is a Crisis House?mentioning

confidence: 99%