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Filter by:Smartphone app-based health interventions are an innovative way to deliver psychosocial cancer-care. In the SEAMLESS study, the investigators aim to evaluate a 4 week smartphone app-based mind-body intervention (MBI) in cancer survivors post-treatment. This is a randomized controlled trial, with a waitlist control group. Participants will be assigned to either receive the intervention immediately after enrollment or will need to wait for 3 months to receive the intervention.
Mental health problems such as anxiety and depression are common. Services are finding it difficult to treat people quickly. This has led to computers being used to treat common problems. Research has shown that around half of people who have mental health problems have more than one difficulty (e.g.low mood and worry). Many of the computer interventions available are not designed to work with more than one problem at a time. This can make them less helpful and can lead to people stopping intervention early. A talking intervention called the Method of Levels is suitable for people with more than one problem. A new computer programme that aims to emulate this type of intervention is called Manage Your Life Online (MYLO). MYLO is accessed online. Users have conversations with MYLO by typing on a computer keyboard. MYLO aims to help people to talk freely and experience feelings related to a problem. In this way, people can find new ways of thinking about their problem. MYLO can be used as often as the person wants. MYLO has been tested twice before with student volunteers. Participants said that it was helpful in solving an everyday problem. The investigators are not aware of any research that has tested a programme like MYLO for people experiencing mental health problems. 24 adult service users will be recruited from Self Help Services, a participating organisation in Manchester contracted to provide primary care mental health provision for NHS patients. Participants will use MYLO for a two week period. The investigators aim to conduct a detailed examination of what questions service users find helpful and unhelpful in intervention with MYLO and whether service user perceptions are related to key mechanisms of psychological change identified in MOL. The information gathered from this study will help to increase understanding of how this type of intervention works and what makes it most helpful to service users. These findings will inform improvements to the MYLO programme to improve its acceptability to service users.
The current pilot study will examine emergent hypotheses by investigating the role of psychological mechanisms in the relationship between food insecurity and obesity. This objective will be achieved via a cross-sectional, observational pilot study collecting quantitative and qualitative data.
Examine the utility of the Transtheoretical Model in influencing anxiety among college students. Employ a randomized controlled intervention including a static and dynamic Facebook intervention. The static group accessed a Facebook page featuring 96 statuses. Statuses were intended to engage cognitive processes, followed by behavioral processes of change per the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change. Content posted on the static Facebook page was identical to the dynamic page. However, the static group viewed all 96 statuses on the first day of the study, while the dynamic group received only 1-2 of these status updates per day throughout the intervention. Anxiety was measured using the Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS). Time spent engaging in physical activity was assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).
The current study aims to investigate the efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for reducing fatigue in Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients in remission.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention through a mobile application, specifically designed for adolescents with a First Psychotic Episode (FEP), as a complement to the pharmacological and therapeutic interventions they receive at their referral center (Treatment as usual). To do this, a longitudinal study will be carried out on patients with FEP and between the ages of 14 and 30, who come to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service of the General Universitarian Hospital "Gregorio Marañón", Psychiatry Department of the Ramon y Cajal Hospital in Madrid and Psychiatry Department of San Joan de Déu in Catalonia. Adolescents and young will be randomly assigned to an experimental group, where they will receive standard treatment plus online intervention, or a control group, where they will receive standard treatment. This online intervention, the continuation of the work of this same team researcher in the "PIENSA program", aims to address little of the more traditional treatments and treatments such as community functioning, quality of life or affective symptoms. In addition, it will increase disease awareness, which will lead to greater adherence to treatment and fewer relapses and rehospitalizations.
This study will utilize a mixed methods design featuring quantitative assessment of symptoms in conjunction with collecting in-depth qualitative data. In this study, perceived stress, mental health symptoms and behaviors and other variables will be used to test how they will influence the daily functioning and service utilization for adolescent and adult burn related injury patients at Mercy Hospital St. Louis Burn Center. The data gathered in the interviews will explore these constructs in-depth for the participants.
Aims. This paper describes the study protocol of a manualized brief positive intervention (BHI). In addition, it reports the on the modification of a hope intervention based on the theoretical proposition - hope theory, and its feasibility when applying to palliative cancer and non-cancer patients. Background. Hope was found to account for therapeutic changes in clients with depressive symptoms or chronic pain. Nevertheless, little is known about the integration of such active ingredients to brief and low intensity psycho-therapeutic interventions to patients receiving palliative care were not adequately tested. Design. The study included two stages: (1) manual development, and (2) a single blinded randomized controlled trial. Methods. Participants will be randomly assigned in equal number into either the brief hope intervention or the controlled arm on completion of the baseline assessment. Participants of the intervention group will be receiving the four-week intervention, while those allocated to the control arm will be receiving the routine care and social chats. The intervention is a manualized program that consists of four sessions at weekly intervals (two face to face sessions and two telephone follow up in between). The core content is modified from an eight sessions hope therapy. Expert panel feedback and trial on targeted populations were completed. Four participants received the program to determine its acceptability prior to feasibility testing. The process and practical considerations were evaluated to allow refinement of the program and to ensure the quality of intervention. Outcome measures comprise of changes in state hope score and the depression scores measured respectively by State Hope Scale and Centre for Epidemiological Study Depression Scale. The secondary outcomes are the common signs and symptoms in cancer patients measured by The Condensed Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale. Data collection will be done prior to the intervention (baseline), immediately and one month after the intervention. Additional use of qualitative interview to explore their experiences in the intervention, including satisfaction with the intervention and the treatment fidelity will be conducted.
Objective: In addition to physical discomforts, work-related injuries and illnesses often result in various forms of hardships, including economic hardship, labor conflicts and legal disputes. The physical and psychological health conditions are likely to be worsen when the social supporting systems are not well functioning. In this study, the investigators aim to conduct in-depth interviews with injured workers to study their experiences with the social systems, including employment protection system, workers' compensation system, health care system and other social welfare systems, and to explore how the systems may affect workers' physical and psychological health. Methods: Face-to-face interviews will be conducted with a semi-structured questionnaire. Subjects who had ever experienced work-related injuries or diseases (including muscular skeletal disorders and work-related cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases) over the past 3 years are invited. The investigators anticipate to recruit a total of 60~100 cases, whom will be recruited through the assistance of occupational physicians, occupational health centers, labor groups and unions. Interview time will be limited to 1 hour. Anticipated results and contribution: Findings of this study will help to advance our knowledge concerning the functions of current social systems and the hardships of workers who suffer from work-related injuries and diseases. Suggestions will be provided for the improvements of current systems. Keywords: work-related injury, occupational disease, workers' compensation, psychological, policy.
This study is designed to examine the psychological effects of bone marrow transplants on children and their families. The investigators hypothesis is that families who show signs of psychological distress before transplant will continue those signs post transplant. The investigators are examining cognitive placement, emotional placement and other psychological factors in both the child undergoing transplant and his or her parent.