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Prevention Of Parasuicide by Manual Assisted Cognitive-behavioural Therapy
ISRCTN ISRCTN97313434
DOI 10.1186/ISRCTN97313434
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier
EudraCT number
Public title Prevention Of Parasuicide by Manual Assisted Cognitive-behavioural Therapy
Scientific title
Acronym POPMACT
Serial number at source G9702283
Study hypothesis To determine whether manual assisted cognitive behaviour therapy (MACT) is more effective than treatment as usual (TAU) in reducing the rate of episodes of deliberate self harm over a 12 month period
Lay summary
Ethics approval Not provided at time of registration
Study design Randomised controlled trial
Countries of recruitment United Kingdom
Disease/condition/study domain Parasuicide
Participants - inclusion criteria Patients presenting to the psychiatric services at any of five centres:
1. Southern General Hospital, Victoria Hospital and Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow
2. Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh
3. Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham
4. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, West London
5. King's College Hospital, South London and Maidstone General Hospital, Kent

Patients will be included if they satisfy the following criteria:
1. Aged between 16 and 65
2. Have presented to an Accident & Emergency department after an episode of deliberate self-harm
3. They have had at least one other episode of deliberate self-harm previously
4. They give informed consent

Recruitment will take place over 20 months and randomisation of each patient will take place after all baseline assessments have been completed by the research assessor
Participants - exclusion criteria 1. Patients who do not have sufficient knowledge of English to enable them to be assessed adequately and to understand the treatment manual
2. Patients who are only temporary residents in the area concerned (e.g. foreign visitors, tertiary referrals with a permanent address elsewhere) who are unlikely to be available for follow-up (This does not necessarily include many people who are homeless but who come from the geographical area concerned; this group is at high risk of repeated episodes and constitutes around one in six of all parasuicide episodes and many will be included if they have established links in the geographical area)
3. Those with a diagnosis within the organic (F00 to F09), alcohol/drug dependence (F10 to F19), schizophrenia group (F20 to F29) or bipolar affective disorder (F31) (using the International Classification of Diseases [ICD-10] coding)
4. People who require psychiatric hospitalisation after their self-harm episode. Recruitment will take place over 20 months and randomisation of each patient will take place after all base-line assessments have been completed by the research assessor
Anticipated start date 01/12/1997
Anticipated end date 01/10/2001
Status of trial Completed
Patient information material
Target number of participants 500
Interventions 1. Manual assisted cognitive behaviour therapy (MACT)
2. Treatment as usual (TAU)
Primary outcome measure(s) Rate of episodes of deliberate self-harm (using the Parasuicidal Acts Scale of Linehan) over the 12 month period
Secondary outcome measure(s) 1. Time to next episode of deliberate self-harm
2. Improvement in clinical symptoms (anxiety and depression) using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
3. Change in social function (using the Social Functioning Questionnaire)
4. Cost of care
Sources of funding UK Medical Research Council
Trial website
Publications Results on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15061347
Contact name Professor  Peter  Tyrer
  Address Academic Department of Psychiatry
Imperial College School of Medicine
Paterson Centre
20 South Wharf Road
  City/town London
  Zip/Postcode W2 1PD
  Country United Kingdom
  Email
Sponsor Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
  Address 20 Park Crescent
  City/town London
  Zip/Postcode W1B 1AL
  Country United Kingdom
  Tel +44 (0)20 7636 5422
  Fax +44 (0)20 7436 6179
  Email clinical.trial@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
  Sponsor website: http://www.mrc.ac.uk
Date applied 23/10/2000
Last edited 12/09/2007
Date ISRCTN assigned 23/10/2000
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