Manualised anger management intervention for people with mild to moderate learning disabilities

Phase 3

Completed

Conditions: Mild to moderate learning disabilities, anger management
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Unspecified disorder of psychological development

Registration Number: ISRCTN37509773

Lead Sponsor: Cardiff University (UK)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

Services:
1. Reported anger control problems among at least four service users who meet individual inclusion criteria and want to participate
2. Availability of at least two staff members willing to be trained as group leaders
3. Service manager provides written agreement to participate

Service Users:
1. An adult attending a service for people with mild to moderate learning disabilities
2. Identified by service staff as having problems in managing their anger
3. Wishing to learn to improve their anger management
4. Able to provide informed consent
5. Able to complete the assessments
6. Aged 18 to 65 years, either sex

Exclusion Criteria

Services:
1. The service is already running an anger management programme similar to this one
2. There are no suitable facilities for group work

Service Users:
1. Attending the service for a reason other than a diagnosed learning disability
2. Currently receiving psychological treatment for anger or aggression
3. Urgently requiring referral to a Clinical Psychologist for individual treatment of anger or aggression
4. Experiencing circumstances which indicate that a Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) procedure should be initiated
5. If for any other reason the supervising Clinical Psychologist makes a clinical judgement that participation in the group would be counter-indicated

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Provocation Index (PI) as completed by the service-user, at follow-up. The PI is a direct measure of felt response to defined situations that may provoke anger and has frequently been used with this service-user group for the current purpose. <br><br>Outcome measures will be taken at baseline, immediately after the support as usual (SAU) or intervention in both groups in parallel and 6 months after the completion of the intervention or SAU.

Secondary Outcome Measures