A Case Series of Culturally-adapted CBTp for Black People in the UK

NCT ID: NCT07252206

Last Updated: 2025-12-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 6 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2026-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2026-12-31

Brief Summary

The goal of this case series study is to learn if culturally-adapted cognitive-behavioural therapy is practical, acceptable and safe among Black Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean people experiencing psychosis. The main question it aims to answer is:

Is culturally-adapted CBT for psychosis feasible, acceptable to and safe for Black Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean people experiencing psychosis?

Participants will be asked to:

• Answer some questionnaires about how things are at the moment
• Attend up to 16 sessions of therapy
• Answer the same questionnaires to see what has changed, if anything
• Complete a semi-structured interview about their expectations and experience of therapy

Conditions

Psychosis; Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Therapy

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Culturally-adapted cognitive-behavioural therapy

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis culturally-adapted for Black Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean people using a dedicated, integrated treatment manual

Interventions

Culturally-adapted cognitive-behavioural therapy

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis culturally-adapted for Black Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean people using a dedicated, integrated treatment manual

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Service users who identify as Black British, Black Caribbean, Black African, African-Caribbean or Mixed African/Caribbean with at least one parent and/or grandparent born in a Sub-Saharan African or Caribbean country
• People with a current ICD-10 schizophrenia spectrum disorder diagnosis, or who are currently receiving or have received support from an Early Intervention in Psychosis team
• 16 years or older
• Sufficient understanding of English to complete study measures and engage with CBTp

Exclusion Criteria

• Current, primary diagnosis of substance use disorder
• Organic aetiology of psychosis
• Lacking capacity to provide full informed consent
• Currently experiencing a mental health crisis (i.e., are open to a home-based treatment team; are currently under Section of the Mental Health Act or have been under Section in the past 3 months) or immediate high risk to self or others (i.e., current suicidal intent or plans; unmanaged and intense non-suicidal self-injury)
• Currently receiving CBTp or received CBTp within the preceding 3 months
• Unwilling to participate in culturally-adapted CBTp

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Manchester

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Peter Panayi

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester, , United Kingdom

Countries

United Kingdom

Central Contacts

Peter Panayi

Role: CONTACT

peter.panayi@manchester.ac.uk

+44161 306 6000

Other Identifiers

NHS002287

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id