None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Psychological injury is a common outcome following a motor vehicle crash (MVC) and the claims process can result in further deterioration of mental, social and physical health. The provision of brief psychological or healthy lifestyle interventions soon after people who have experienced an MVC and who engage in the compensation scheme should improve wellbeing by reducing risks of psychological and physical distress. Improved wellbeing should also result in reduced scheme costs, for instance, by preventing the development of severe psychological injury and enhancing return to normal daily functioning. This Project will investigate the efficacy, using a randomised control trial design, of two email-delivered interventions designed to improve and maintain physical health and strengthen mental health. It is hypothesised that participants receiving one of the two brief interventions will exhibit less psychological distress compared to control particpants 6 months after the road accident.
Interventions
1. Brief cognitive behaviour therapy including strategies like self-monitoring of mood and anxiety, slow breathing, problem solving, pleasant life events and mindfulness. Five sessions of around 60 minutes, administered by a psychologist, will be emailed to participants every 2nd week over 10 weeks. Participants will be contacted by a psychologist via a telephone call, every week for the 10 weeks, for up to 30 minutes to discuss application of skills and to improve adherence.
2. Healthy lifestyl
1. Brief cognitive behaviour therapy including strategies like self-monitoring of mood and anxiety, slow breathing, problem solving, pleasant life events and mindfulness. Five sessions of around 60 minutes, administered by a psychologist, will be emailed to participants every 2nd week over 10 weeks. Participants will be contacted by a psychologist via a telephone call, every week for the 10 weeks, for up to 30 minutes to discuss application of skills and to improve adherence. 2. Healthy lifestyle intervention including self-monitoring of behaviours like diet intake and exercise; goal setting, education on healthy sleep behaviour, education on healthy exercise behaviour and diet. Five sessions of around 60 minutes, administered by a psychologist, will be emailed to participants every 2nd week over 10 weeks. Participants will be contacted by a psychologist via a telephone call every week for the 10 weeks, for up to 30 minutes to discuss application of skills and to improve adherence. The participants will be randomised to either one of the two interventions or the control condition, so that one-third will receive the brief CBT, one-third the healthy lifestyle and one-third the control condition.
Sponsors
The University of Sydney
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
(i) adults; (ii) recently experienced a motor vehicle crash; (iii) CTP member; (iv) English speaking; (v) must have experienced a motor vehicle crash within the past 4-8 weeks
Exclusion criteria
very severe injury such as acute spinal cord injury or severe traumatic brain injury
Outcome results
None listed