Development of a Money Advice Intervention Within IAPT

King's College London

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Issue; Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Debt Advice; Behavioral: Psychological Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04926675

300734

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is the second study of a larger project and will begin the process of testing and the development of an integrated intervention on a series of case studies. The combined intervention provides psychological therapy and debt advice in tandem. The treatment pathway is based on interviews and focus groups with service users and staff and the themes that emerged. It will be trialled in the NHS' Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. Participants routinely accessing this service who have debt issues affecting their mental health will be asked if they'd like to also take up support for their money worries, which will be provided by Citizen's Advice (CA). Researchers will take exit interviews with both service users and staff at the end of the treatment to develop the protocol further. Researchers will also assess measures of mental health and wellbeing that are routinely taken by IAPT to review the intervention.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• IAPT clients referred for 'high-intensity' one-to-one treatment in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM)
• Have mental health problems and experience of money problems that are effecting these
• Can access technology

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to give informed consent due to mental incapacity (as assessed by IAPT therapists)
• Participants whose care team specify concerns regarding taking part in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 1 patient group

Combined intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants accessing one-to-one psychological therapy from the IAPT service will be asked if they have any money worries affecting their mental health. Suitable participants will be offered one-to-one support from a money advisor, who they will access in tandem to their therapy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Debt Advice

Behavioral: Psychological Therapy