The Feeling Heard study - evaluating a novel intervention pathway for patients distressed by hearing voices
- Conditions
- Psychosis - voicesMental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN16003237
- Lead Sponsor
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Brief Summary
2024 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2024.2351817 (added 04/06/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 14
1. 18 years or older
2. Under the care of secondary care adult services within SPFT
3. Have a clinician-reported diagnosis of psychosis
4. Are experiencing current voice hearing; this will be operationalized by participants having a score of at least 1 on item 1 (How frequently did you hear a voice or voices?) on the Hamilton Program for Schizophrenic Voices Questionnaire (HPSVQ; Van Lieshout & Goldberg, 2007) - indicating that the participant has experienced at least one episode of voice hearing in the past week
5. Distressed by hearing voices; this will be operationalized by participants scoring at least 8 out of 16 on the ‘negative impact’ scale of the HPSVQ
6. Willing and able to provide written/verbal, informed consent.
1. Established organic cause for distressing voices (e.g., brain disease or injury)
2. Primary diagnosis of substance misuse
3. Non-English speaking to the degree that the participant is unable to fully understand and answer assessment questions or give informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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