None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Recovery-oriented practice has been advocated in local clinical settings of mental health service in Hong Kong since 2009. Wellbeing has become an important area of focus in mental health service. The WELLFOCUS Positive Psychotherapy, based on the hypothesis that it could improve people’s wellbeing, was developed at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, King’s College London, United Kingdom. This study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the WELLFOCUS Positive Psychotherapy Programme (Chinese version) used for people with psychosis in terms of their primary outcome in improving participants’ wellbeing and other mental health outcomes. Hence, it would help to test the feasibility and applicability of the intervention adapted to improve the wellbeing of people with psychosis in local context of Hong Kong. The study was a randomized controlled trial with two-arm parallel groups, i.e. intervention group and control group. The intervention group received a 13-session of WELLFOCUS PPT whilst the control group received treatment as usual.
Interventions
The Intervention Group will receive treatment as usual and in addition receive the WELLFOCUS Positive Psychotherapy (PPT), a 13-session of WELLFOCUS PPT with a group size of 8-10 in 7 consecutive weeks (2 sessions a week) by a trained therapist and co-therapist in a Group Therapy Room of our occupational therapy department. Each session lasts for about 1 hour and 45 min. Trained occupational therapists with a co-therapist should conduct the sessions according to the manual of WELLFOCUS Positive
The Intervention Group will receive treatment as usual and in addition receive the WELLFOCUS Positive Psychotherapy (PPT), a 13-session of WELLFOCUS PPT with a group size of 8-10 in 7 consecutive weeks (2 sessions a week) by a trained therapist and co-therapist in a Group Therapy Room of our occupational therapy department. Each session lasts for about 1 hour and 45 min. Trained occupational therapists with a co-therapist should conduct the sessions according to the manual of WELLFOCUS Positive Psychotherapy for psychosis Intervention Manual (Chinese) in which the session outlines, activities, scripts and materials of each session were all well documented. Session Outlines are: 1. Welcome to WELLFOCUS PPT 2. Positive Experiences 3. Savouring 4. Good Things 5. Identifying a Personal Strength 6. Personal Strengths Activity 7. At my best 8. One door closes, another door opens Identify positive conclusions from negative experiences, Meaningful self-narrative 9. Forgiveness 1 10. Forgiveness 2 11. Gratitude 12. Looking back, moving forward 13. Celebration In order to ensure fidelity to the manual, peer observation would be arranged to make sure the implementation is based on the Chinese manual. A third party personnel who is not the member in the research team will sit in randomly in some sessions to impartially check the implementation against the session contents of the Chinese manual in order to ensure the fidelity.
Sponsors
Kwai Chung Hospital
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
- Aged 18-65 years old - Primary diagnosis of psychosis (F20-29) - Able to read written Chinese and speak Cantonese - Willing to give written consent
Exclusion criteria
- Cognitive impairment - Active Substance abuse - Unable to give consent
Outcome results
None listed