None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucination) is a potentially distressing and disabling experience which often persists in spite of treatment with medication. This pilot study examines whether it is helpful for people who hear voices to receive assistance in coping with this experience from someone else who hears voices and has adapted to living with this experience.
Interventions
Participants will receive 12 weekly one hour one-to-one sessions of a support intervention for hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations) from a peer mental health worker who has had personal lived experience of hearing voices themselves. The intervention will involve buidling a shared understanding of the participant's experience of hearing voices and using this to inform how to respond to hearing voices and cope with this experience more effectively. The intervention group will receive t
Participants will receive 12 weekly one hour one-to-one sessions of a support intervention for hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations) from a peer mental health worker who has had personal lived experience of hearing voices themselves. The intervention will involve buidling a shared understanding of the participant's experience of hearing voices and using this to inform how to respond to hearing voices and cope with this experience more effectively. The intervention group will receive the intervention alongside treatment as usual (TAU) in the 3 month period immediately following randomisation, whilst the control group will receive the intervention after a 3 month TAU wait list period.
Sponsors
Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Crossover
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Auditory verbal hallucinations at least weekly over the past six months associated with significant distress or disability
Exclusion criteria
Recent (past 8 weeks) or planned change in antipsychotic medication Currently receiving individual psychological therapy Insufficient English or intellectual functioning to meaningfully participate
Outcome results
None listed