Moving beyond randomized controlled trials in the evaluation of compulsory community treatment. Issue 3 (29th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Duncan, Craig; Weich, Scott; Moon, Graham; Twigg, Liz; Fenton, Sarah‐Jane; Bhui, Kamaldeep; Canaway, Alastair; Crepaz‐Keay, David; Keown, Patrick; Madan, Jason; McBride, Orla; Parsons, Helen; Singh, Swaran
• Is Part Of: Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. Volume 26:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 812
• Page End: 818
• Publication Date: 2019-07-29
• Subjects: clinical effectiveness -- compulsory community treatment -- mental health policy -- randomized controlled trials -- realist evaluation; Clinical medicine -- Periodicals; 616.005
• DOI: 10.1111/jep.13245
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-1294

Abstract

Abstract: Compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illness remains controversial due to conflicting research evidence. Recently, there have been challenges to the conventional view that trial‐based evidence should take precedence. This paper adds to these challenges in three ways. First, it emphasizes the need for critiques of trials to engage with conceptual and not just technical issues. Second, it develops a critique of trials centred on both how we can have knowledge and what it is we can have knowledge of. Third, it uses this critique to develop a research strategy that capitalizes on the information in large‐scale datasets.