Targeting distress reduction for patients experiencing distressing voices: A case series evaluating a novel intervention pathway (the Feeling Heard study)

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust0 sites14 target enrollmentMarch 4, 2022

Overview

Registry

who.int

Start Date

March 4, 2022

End Date

August 31, 2023

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•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