ACTRN1261200097.
Trial name or title | Peer delivered support intervention for people who hear voices: pilot randomised controlled trial |
Methods | Allocation: randomised by computerised sequence generation (treatment allocation made independently via email) Blindness: blinded Duration: 6 months Location: not stated |
Participants | Diagnosis: schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, auditory verbal hallucinations n = 35 Age: 18–65 years Sex: both History: not stated Exclusion: recent (past 8 weeks) or planned change in antipsychotic medication; currently receiving individual psychological therapy; insufficient English or intellectual functioning to meaningfully participate |
Interventions | Group 1: intervention: 12 weekly 1‐hour 1‐to‐1 sessions, from a peer mental health worker who has had experience of hearing voices themselves + treatment as usual Group 2: receive the intervention after a 3‐month treatment as usual wait list period |
Outcomes | Primary outcome: subjective Experiences of Psychosis Scale Secondary outcome: RAS |
Starting date | 2012 |
Contact information | Neil Thomas: neilthomas@swin.edu.au |
Notes | Protocol, full characteristics and outcome data not reported. Contacted author for more data, but was told the trial is still ongoing. |