NCT03989765: RECON

Reducing Coercion in Norway (RECON)

Completed NA Last updated 5 June 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Programme to reduce involuntary treatment episodes in Compulsion in 900 participants. Completed in 30 September 2022.

Timeline

25 June 2019

Primary endpoint
30 September 2022

30 September 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University Hospital, Akershus
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	900
Start date	25 June 2019
Primary completion	30 September 2022
Estimated completion	30 September 2022
Sites	1 location across Norway

Drugs / interventions tested

• Programme to reduce involuntary treatment episodes

Conditions studied

• Compulsion — all drugs for Compulsion →

Sponsor

University Hospital, Akershus

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Compulsion. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

There is considerable geographical variation in the rates of compulsion in psychiatric services within as well as between countries. Reducing the use of compulsion of patients with severe mental illness is an expressed policy aim, and also a demand from service user organisations. In Norway, municipalities hold responsibility for primary care and are therefore central to the delivery of services to people with severe mental illness. This indicates a potential for intervening at the municipal level to reduce the use of compulsion where it is high. The Reducing Coercion in Norway study (RECON) will, in collaboration with municipalities with high compulsion rates, develop a municipal-level intervention (Stage 1) that will be implemented in a cluster-RCT (Stage 2) to test if it has effect on compulsion rates.pulsion rates.

Publications & conference data

5 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Between No Help and Coercion: Toward Referral to Involuntary Psychiatric Admission. A Qualitative Interview Study of Stakeholders' Perspectives.
   Wormdahl I, Husum TL, Kjus SHH, Rugkåsa J, et al · · 2021 · cited 16× · PMID 34484000 · DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708175
2. Professionals' perspectives on factors within primary mental health services that can affect pathways to involuntary psychiatric admissions.
   Wormdahl I, Husum TL, Rugkåsa J, Rise MB. · · 2020 · cited 13× · PMID 33292378 · DOI 10.1186/s13033-020-00417-z
3. The ReCoN intervention: a co-created comprehensive intervention for primary mental health care aiming to prevent involuntary admissions.
   Wormdahl I, Hatling T, Husum TL, Kjus SHH, et al · · 2022 · cited 7× · PMID 35854270 · DOI 10.1186/s12913-022-08302-w
4. Something Happened with the Way We Work: Evaluating the Implementation of the Reducing Coercion in Norway (ReCoN) Intervention in Primary Mental Health Care.
   Husum TL, Wormdahl I, Kjus SHH, Hatling T, et al · · 2024 · cited 1× · PMID 38610208 · DOI 10.3390/healthcare12070786
5. Can primary mental health services impact levels of involuntary admissions? A cluster-RCT of the ReCoN intervention.
   Rugkåsa J, Nyttingnes O, Šaltytė Benth J, Husum TL, et al · · 2025 · PMID 40307589 · DOI 10.1007/s00127-025-02914-3