Enhancing Psychological Self-help With Implementation Intentions

NCT ID: NCT03004027

Last Updated: 2017-10-26

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

326 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-01-31

Study Completion Date

2017-05-31

Brief Summary

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Individuals with visible conditions often report experiencing lowered social confidence and encountering intrusive reactions from others, yet relatively few targeted psychosocial self help interventions are available.

The investigators will conduct a randomised controlled trial to compare the efficacy of an adapted form of an existing self-help intervention with an enhanced version of the same intervention that incorporates if-then planning instructions (or 'implementation intentions') and a control condition that will receive support as usual. Participants who self-identify as having a visible condition affecting the skin or hair, or scarring to the skin that negatively affects their social confidence will be allocated to one of three conditions: augmented self-help, standard self help or control. The interventions will be delivered online and participants will complete psychometric outcome measures at two time points, four weeks apart.

It is hypothesised that participants who receive the augmented self help intervention will have a statistically significant decrease in fear of negative evaluation in comparison to both the standard self-help and support as usual control groups.

Detailed Description

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The proposed research will take the form of a randomised controlled trial conducted in accordance with CONSORT guidelines (http://www.consort-statement.org). Data will be collected online using Qualtrics. Participants will be required to answer all fields on Qualtrics, as a way of managing potential missing data.

Participants will be randomly allocated to one of three groups: (i) psychological self-help augmented with implementation intentions, (ii) standard psychological self-help or (iii) a no intervention waiting list control. Qualtrics will be used to randomly allocate participants to one of the three groups.

A sample size analysis has been conducted and calculated assuming two measures, three groups, an alpha of 0.05, a power of 0.8, and an effect size of 0.25; a total sample size of 120 participants would be needed (i.e. 40 per group). Allowing for an attrition rate of 20%, 144 participants would need to be recruited (i.e. 48 per group). Although participants will be randomised to condition, it is best practice for any differences at baseline to be controlled for in analyses and thus a between factors repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) will be conducted.

Conditions

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Social Anxiety

Keywords

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health behaviour change implementation intention if then plan skin condition visible difference self help

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Enhanced

self help leaflet enhanced with implementation intentions

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Self help leaflet

Intervention Type OTHER

Self help leaflet entitled 'Building confidence in social situations: A guide for people living with a visible skin differences'

Standard

self help leaflet standard (without implementation intentions)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Self help leaflet

Intervention Type OTHER

Self help leaflet entitled 'Building confidence in social situations: A guide for people living with a visible skin differences'

Waiting list control

Baseline measures administered only. self help intervention will be made available once the study has finished.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Self help leaflet

Self help leaflet entitled 'Building confidence in social situations: A guide for people living with a visible skin differences'

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Participants self-identify as having a visible skin difference
* Participants will be aged 18 years or over
* Participants will be fluent in the English language

Exclusion Criteria

Participants will be excluded if they are currently receiving psychotherapy
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Sheffield

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jessica Lane

Trainee Clinical Psychologist

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jessica C Lane

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Sheffield

Locations

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University of Sheffield

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

References

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Faul F, Erdfelder E, Lang AG, Buchner A. G*Power 3: a flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Behav Res Methods. 2007 May;39(2):175-91. doi: 10.3758/bf03193146.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17695343 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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147400

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id