Outcomes frequently specified in Cochrane reviews of community‐based psychosocial interventions for adults with severe mental illness: A systematic search and narrative synthesis
Background Outcome selection in intervention studies is a critical issue for synthesizing evidence. This study is aimed to investigate outcomes used in Cochrane reviews assessing community‐based psychosocial interventions for adults with severe mental illness. Methods Cochrane reviews that evaluated...
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Published in | Neuropsychopharmacology reports Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 459 - 463 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
01.12.2021
John Wiley and Sons Inc Wiley |
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Summary: | Background
Outcome selection in intervention studies is a critical issue for synthesizing evidence. This study is aimed to investigate outcomes used in Cochrane reviews assessing community‐based psychosocial interventions for adults with severe mental illness.
Methods
Cochrane reviews that evaluated a community‐based psychosocial intervention for adults with severe mental illness were searched electronically and manually. We extracted all outcomes specified in the Methods section in each Cochrane review. Outcomes that represent the same concept and context were synthesized into an outcome term. Outcome terms were categorized according to the existing taxonomy.
Results
We included 33 Cochrane reviews. Of the 216 outcome terms identified, 13 were used in more than half of the reviews: quality of life, mental state, admission to hospital, economic outcome, leaving the study early, social functioning, satisfaction, global state, relapse, adverse events/effects, carer satisfaction, employment, and duration of admission. Most outcome terms were categorized into the life impact core area (55%), followed by the resource use area (21%).
Conclusions
Our study provides a candidate outcome list for developing a core outcome set for severe mental illness and offers a basis for comparison for future outcome investigation on mental health research.
Two hundred and sixteen outcome terms were found by investigating all the outcomes used in 33 Cochrane reviews assessing community‐based psychosocial interventions for adults with severe mental illness. Thirteen outcome terms were used in more than half of the reviews: quality of life, mental state, admission to hospital, economic outcome, leaving the study early, social functioning, satisfaction, global state, relapse, adverse events/effects, carer satisfaction, employment, and duration of admission. |
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Bibliography: | Funding information This work is supported by a research grant from National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (No. 1‐3: Fundamental Study on Effective Community Services for People with Severe Mental Disorders and Their Families) and by a Health and Labour Sciences Research Grant from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (19189500: Development of a Website as the Platform for Gathering Evidence on Mental Health and Welfare and Outcomes of Long‐term Psychiatric Patients After Discharge to Communities). The funders did not have a role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 |
ISSN: | 2574-173X 2574-173X |
DOI: | 10.1002/npr2.12216 |