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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2009 Jul;195(1):81-2.
doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.059303.

Randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment: 3-year outcomes

Helen Killaspy  1 , Stella Kingett, Paul Bebbington, Robert Blizard, Sonia Johnson, Fiona Nolan, Stephen Pilling, Michael King
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Randomised evaluation of assertive community treatment: 3-year outcomes

Helen Killaspy et al. Br J Psychiatry. 2009 Jul.
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Abstract

The only randomised controlled trial to test high-fidelity assertive community treatment (ACT) in the UK (the Randomised Evaluation of Assertive Community Treatment (REACT) study) found no advantage over usual care from community mental health teams in reducing the need for in-patient care and in other clinical outcomes, but participants found ACT more acceptable and engaged better with it. One possible reason for the lack of efficacy of ACT might be the short period of follow-up (18 months in the REACT study). This paper reports on participants' service contact, in-patient service use and adverse events 36 months after randomisation.

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