A sample of 149 adults with a psychiatric inpatient readmission within 30 days of a prior psychiatric hospitalization was referred to an acute level of service coordination available at six provider organizations implementing B-CTI. These providers operate within the network of Community Care Behavioral Health, a not-for-profit managed care organization operating in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Following on the encouraging results of the first trial with men discharged from the shelter, this second randomized trial tested CTI with 150 previously homeless adults with serious mental illness following discharge from two psychiatric hospitals.
The authors used a pre-post cohort design to compare two groups of homeless veterans with serious mental illness after discharge from eight VA medical centers across five states: 1) 278 veterans recruited before CTI was implemented; and 2) 206 veterans who were offered CTI.
This randomized trial of 135 veterans with serious mental illness assessed the effectiveness of a brief CTI intervention (B-CTI) in attaining a limited outcome, namely to increase outpatient visits during the first three months after discharge from psychiatric hospital.