Lancet
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Peer-supported self-management for people discharged from a mental health crisis team: a randomised controlled trial.
High resource expenditure on acute care is a challenge for mental health services aiming to focus on supporting recovery, and relapse after an acute crisis episode is common. Some evidence supports self-management interventions to prevent such relapses, but their effect on readmissions to acute care following a crisis is untested. We tested whether a self-management intervention facilitated by peer support workers could reduce rates of readmission to acute care for people discharged from crisis resolution teams, which provide intensive home treatment following a crisis. ⋯ National Institute for Health Research.