NCT06479980

Single Session Narrative Therapy Study

Pilot Study of Feasibility, Acceptability, Fit and Clinical Impact of a Single Session Narrative Psychotherapy Intervention to Reduce Wait Times in a Primary Care HIV Clinic

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This pilot research study will provide timely access to behavioral health services through the provision of a single-session narrative therapy intervention. The goal of this 6-month study is to test the acceptability, feasibility, and fit of the intervention in an integrated primary care clinic serving people living with HIV.

Detailed description

Single-session interventions are designed to address barriers to engaging in care and address the issues of long waitlists and limited provider availability. Offering a single session intervention soon after a referral is made is a strategy on a stepped-care continuum model that has been found to be an effective approach to manage population mental health needs. This study aims to 1) pre-pilot a single-session narrative therapy intervention with patients currently on the waitlist for psychotherapy services at an HIV primary care clinic to evaluate the acceptability of this treatment option for patients and the feasibility of proposed data collection followed by 2) a 6-month pilot study of the same intervention to evaluate intervention acceptability, fit, and impact on service and clinical outcomes. At the end of this study, patient and provider-level data on the utility of integrating a single-session psychotherapy service as part of the continuum of behavioral health services in an integrated care setting will be obtained, which the investigators can utilize to design a larger implementation-effectiveness trial.

Conditions

• Mental Health Issue
• HIV
• Substance Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Single Session Narrative Therapy	Single-session narrative psychotherapy intervention is an evidence-based strategy on a stepped care continuum that can assist patients in accessing care when they most need it and can lead to the most effective utilization of scarce resources. It offers a transdiagnostic, strengths, solution-oriented, and non-pathologizing intervention to address patients' behavioral health needs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-06-04
• Primary completion: 2025-03-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2024-06-28
• Last updated: 2025-04-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States