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Evaluation of an ACT and PBS Group for Parents and Education Staff

NCT03917329 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2020-03-25

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Intellectual Disabilities With Other Behavioral Symptoms
  • Acceptance Processes
  • Psychological Distress
  • Burnout, Professional
  • Self Efficacy

Interventions

OTHER

ACT and PBS group workshop

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Behaviour Support Group Workshop. Three sessions of approximately three hour duration. Groups will consist of 5-10 parents or 5-10 members of education staff. The group will include both didactic and experiential elements.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • NHS Lothian

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Edinburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Corinne Reid, MPsych, PhD · University of Edinburgh

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-03-29
Primary Completion
2019-12-16
Completion
2019-12-16

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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