The effect of a short cognitive and behavioural therapy intervention on illness representations and quality of life in individuals who sustain a traumatic injury: A pilot study.

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12611000265976

Enrollment

Registered

2011-03-11

Start date

2011-05-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Specific aims of this research project include: 1.Examining whether previous findings about associations between illness representations and health related quality of life in people who have had a traumatic injury are replicated. 2.The development and evaluation of a brief CBT intervention designed to enhance self-regulation in trauma injured patients and assist them to develop realistic and helpful cognitive representations which would in turn facilitate their coping and recovery processes. It is hypothesized that: 1.Illness perceptions will be associated with health-related quality of life. 2.Following the intervention, the intervention group will show more adaptive illness perceptions than the control group. 3.Following the intervention, the intervention group will report better health-related quality of life than the control group.

Interventions

Two sessions of cognitive-behavioural therapy delivered face-to-face. Sessions will last one hour duration and will be one on one with a provisionally registered or fully registered psychologist. Sessions will be approximately three weeks apart (the first will be delivered approximately one week before discharge from hospital, the second will be delivered two weeks following discharge). Participants will learn skills for relaxation, challenging unhelpful thoughts, how to manage uncertainty.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 60 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Greater than 18 years of age Sustained a traumatic injury requiring hospitalization for 3 days or more English-speaking (to an 8th grade level)

Exclusion criteria

Individuals with Brain Injury (Glasgow Coma Score < 13) Spinal cord injury Hangings Poisonings Patients not discharged home (e.g., sent to extended treatment and rehabilitation ward).

Outcome results