Reducing Coercion in Norway (RECON) (RECON)
Compulsion
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Compulsion
Eligibility Criteria
As we are developing a new intervention, we will target municipalities in the higher 50 percent of rates of involuntary treatment episodes, and of a size that makes it possible to detect effect. To avoid the effect of the national reorganisation of Norwegian municipalities that is currently underway, those municipalities involved in a merging process of their services will not be targeted.
Eligible municipalities are those that:
- Have a population size between 20-50K inhabitants (figures from 2018)
- Are in the upper half of all municipalities in terms of the rate of involuntary treatment (figures from 2016-17)
- Are not affected by a merging process
Exclusion criteria:
• Municipalities neighbouring another eligible municipality will not be included to prevent contamination should one of them be randomised to the intervention group. The municipality with the lowest rate of involuntary treatment episodes will be removed
Sites / Locations
- Akershus University HospitalRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Intervention arm
Control municipality
Municipalities in the intervention arm will, in Stage 1, be part of developing the intervention to reduce the rate of compulsion. In Stage 2 they will implement the intervention through their services.
As all outcome measures will be collected from the National Patient Register, there will be treatment as usual.