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Filter by:Parents and education staff who work with children with intellectual disabilities (ID) are known to be at a higher risk of experiencing psychological distress. This study evaluates whether a therapeutic group for parents and education staff who work with children with ID is effective in reducing psychological distress and if so, how it does this and who it works for. The group will include two components: an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) section and a section about positive behaviour support (PBS). ACT is a psychological therapy, the aim of which is to help people to live their lives based on what matters to them, whilst learning new ways of managing difficult thoughts and feelings. The PBS section aims to help participants to learn how to use positive strategies to reduce challenging behaviour. Both interventions have been shown to be effective on their own, but this study will examine if combining the two is helpful. Parents of children with ID and education staff who work closely with children with ID attending chosen schools or learning disability child and adolescent mental health services in NHS Lothian will be invited to participate in the study. The group will take place on three half days. Participants will complete questionnaires on the first and last day of the group and six weeks after it has finished. The questionnaires will be about psychological distress, confidence in caring for children with ID and seeing if the group changed how they cope with thoughts and feelings. Participants will also be invited to a focus group, which will think about if the intervention was helpful, and if so how it helped. If the group is effective, the investigators would hope to research the intervention in more depth with the aim of it being offered more widely in the future.
This study assesses severity of trauma, depression and anxiety symptoms of Syrian women under temporary protection who reside in Istanbul and types of exposed trauma that they have experienced. This study also evaluates the effectiveness of the Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CA-CBT) in Syrian women under temporary protection who are with psychological distress in Turkey. Half of participants will receive Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CA-CBT), while the other half will receive treatment as usual.
This study evaluates the use of a mobile-app delivered mindfulness-based intervention for supporting psychosocial resilience in aging patients undergoing rehabilitation treatment. Half of the patients will receive the mobile-app, while the other half will receive the app 6 months later.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a novel approach with a motor imagery-based exercise program versus conventional rehabilitative approach in fibromyalgia syndrome (FM): reduction of pain was set as the primary outcome.
This is an exploratory prospective observational cohort study to establish the levels of psychological distress in early phase clinical trial patients and evaluate the psychological impact of early phase clinical trials on cancer patients. Participants will be requested to complete self-reported questionnaires, measuring levels of anxiety, depression and hope, at different time points along the clinical trials pathway.
Career decision-making difficulties are frequent problems for adolescents. Regular intervention or prevention programs mainly provide information for the students about themselves, about the world of work, about their interests and preferences etc. Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), a form of Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) provides help for adolescents to efficiently cope with emotional problems (e.g., psychological distress) related to the career decision-making process. The present study aims to investigate the efficiency of an REBT career intervention program implemented in a school setting. School settings are appropriate to deliver group intervention for students. Classes from Romanian public high-schools will be randomized in either intervention or treatment as usual groups.
Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer have many needs for supportive care that differ from younger and older patients.This includes age-appropriate psychological support for management of distress, as well as supports for the social isolation many AYAs experience. One intervention that may provide AYAs with cancer improved psychosocial support, as well as increased physical strength, is physical activity. This feasibility project aims to evaluate the safety, feasibility and acceptability of a physical activity training in AYAs with cancer delivered via a socially interactive videoconferencing platform.
Political and civil instability in Pakistan has placed many segments of society under stress. A 5-session group intervention incorporating principles of stress management, problem solving, behavioural activation, peer-support and adaptive leadership has been developed and successfully piloted for business professionals working under stressful conditions in Pakistan. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an adapted version of the intervention in improving psychological well-being amongst a group of trainee civil servants in the country. A two-arm single blind, randomised controlled trial of the group intervention will be conducted among trainee civil servants in Pakistan. The participants are newly inducted civil servants (n=240) undergoing a 6 months' induction training. The participants will be randomised on a 1:1 allocation ratio (120 in each arm), with the intervention arm receiving the group intervention integrated into their orientation sessions and the control arm receiving orientation sessions alone. Outcome assessments will be conducted immediately post-intervention and 3 months after the completion of the intervention. The primary outcomes will be change in the prevalence of psychological distress as measured by Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and improvement in coping strategies as measured by Brief Cope Questionnaire. Secondary outcomes include symptoms of anxiety (measured by Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7)), well-being (measured by WHO5 well-being index) and psychological capital (measured by Psychological Capital Questionnaire). The primary analyses will be intent-to-treat consisting of all participants included, according to the groups in which they will be randomized. The primary analysis will involve comparing pre to post changes in prevalence of psychological distress and coping strategies of the participants randomly assigned to the two conditions, using Fisher's exact test. Primary analyses will be non-parametric tests; however sensitivity analyses will use parametric models such as linear and logistic regression to control for baseline values of the participants' characteristics. Ethical principles of voluntary informed consent, maintaining anonymity and confidentiality, data management and storage will be followed.
This is an effectiveness study of group problem management plus, a low-intensity psychological intervention, delivered in five sessions to adults affected by humanitarian crises. The current study will evaluate the effectiveness of Group Problem Management Plus (PM+).
This study will begin a novel line of research on CCT in Denmark as a preventive intervention for caregivers of people suffering from a mental illness. The primary aim of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of a Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) course on psychological distress of informal caregivers.