NCT03077971

Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Self-Help for Carers of People With Multiple Sclerosis

Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Self-Help for Carers of People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nottingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a feasibility study to evaluate whether it is possible to conduct a larger study to evaluate whether providing psychological support to carers of people with MS is effective in reducing carer strain. Whilst not all carers experience distress as a result of their caring duties, some do. This study is testing the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in a self-help format. Participants will learn about and use ACT by reading a book provided to them by the study. One group will receive the ACT book, another will receive the same book alongside weekly telephone support to use the book, and a third group will act as a control group and therefore will not have extra support. Participants are allocated to the groups based on chance (a computer will decide group allocation). Participants will complete questionnaires before group allocation, and then again 3 months after they were allocated to a group, and one final time 6 months after group allocation. Those who receive the self-help book will get sent chapters each week for 8 weeks. The groups will be compared on scores from the questionnaires and complete feedback interviews with a subgroup of those who receive the book, to gain feedback about their experiences of the study.

Conditions

• Carer Stress Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	ACT Self-Help	Self-Help Intervention Workbook using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach
BEHAVIORAL	ACT Self-Help with Telephone Support	Self-Help Intervention Workbook using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approach alongside weekly telephone support calls

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2018-06-01
• First posted: 2017-03-13
• Last updated: 2017-11-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom