Enhancing the quality of telephone psychological treatments for anxiety and depression: testing an intervention to help services
- Conditions
- Anxiety and/or depressionMental and Behavioural DisordersAnxiety disorder, unspecified, Depression NOS
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN22583714
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Manchester
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2600
Current participant inclusion criteria as of 11/02/2022:
Services:
1. Any IAPT service (NHS or third sector) that supports patients at Step 2 over the telephone will be eligible
2. Services will need to be providing at least 20% of their treatment sessions using the telephone and have enough referrals likely to allow for a sample of 100 patients for the enriched sample
3. Multiple IAPT services within the same Trust will be included if they work independently to each other
Professionals:
All professionals working within the IAPT teams in services that are recruited will be eligible to take part (Service Leads, Managers, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), Administrators)
Patients:
Patients will be recruited via the services that are recruited into the trial. Patients who meet the following criteria 1-3 below will be eligible.
1. Adults aged 18+ years
2. Experiencing anxiety and/or depression
3. All patients who are allocated to receive telephone therapy
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Previous participant inclusion criteria:
Services:
1. Any IAPT service (NHS or third sector) that supports patients at Step 2 over the telephone will be eligible
2. Services will need to be providing at least 20% of their treatment sessions using the telephone and have enough referrals likely to allow for a sample of 100 patients for the enriched sample
3. Multiple IAPT services within the same Trust will be included if they work independently to each other
Professionals:
All professionals working within the IAPT teams will be eligible to take part (Service Leads, Managers, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), Administrators)
Patients:
1. Adults aged 18+ years
2. Experiencing anxiety and/or depression
3. All patients who are allocated to receive telephone therapy
Current exclusion criteria as of 27/11/2023:
Services:
IAPT sites where telephone referral level would feasibly generate a participant sample of 100 over a period of up to 6-9 months.
Patients:
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Professionals – workshop and training sample:
No individuals working within the IAPT teams will be excluded from taking part. The decision as to whether to attend will be made by individuals or the sites (who may have to take into account practitioner workloads etc).
Professionals – post-intervention qualitative interviews/discussion groups:
No individuals who attended the workshop or training will be excluded from taking part in an interview, the decision to take part will be for each individual to make.
Previous exclusion criteria:
Services:
IAPT sites where telephone referral level would feasibly generate a participant sample of 100 over a period of up to 6 months.
Patients:
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Professionals – workshop and training sample:
No individuals working within the IAPT teams will be excluded from taking part. The decision as to whether to attend will be made by individuals or the sites (who may have to take into account practitioner workloads etc).
Professionals – post-intervention qualitative interviews/discussion groups:
No individuals who attended the workshop or training will be excluded from taking part in an interview, the decision to take part will be for each individual to make.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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