Feasibility and Acceptability of Implementing DIALOG+ in a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit

University of Sheffield

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Psychological Recovery

Treatments: Behavioral: DIALOG+; Behavioral: DIALOG

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06476483

187799

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to understand if implementing DIALOG+ in an inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation setting is feasible (can the intervention be implemented) and acceptable (how the intervention is perceived by staff and patient participants). If the intervention is proven to be feasible and acceptable a larger-scale study may take place. This study has been developed in response to the trust-wide implementation of DIALOG outcome measures. DIALOG+ offers additional solution-focused and person-centred follow-up questions to the DIALOG questions and links to multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussions. It is hoped that the conversations had during DIALOG+ meetings will support positive outcomes, and the learning gathered from this study will drive change and improvement for other people requiring psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient admissions in the future. DIALOG+ has been successfully implemented in community settings in the national health service (NHS) but has not been implemented in psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient settings. This study will aim to recruit patient and staff participants from NHS psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient wards. Patient participants who will be eligible to take part are those who can consent, are between the ages of 18-65, and can complete DIALOG and DIALOG+. To understand the feasibility of the intervention, descriptive statistics will be collected and to understand acceptability focus groups will take place and surveys will be collected. Quantitative data collection will take place over 5 months and will be split into 2 groups. Group one will be a comparison group where participants will act as an extended baseline group and biweekly DIALOG outcomes will be collected. Group 2 will be a Treatment group and participants will receive the DIALOG+ intervention intervention, DIALOG outcomes will be collected biweekly as part of the intervention. Finally, there will be a period to gather qualitative feedback from patient participants using surveys, and from staff participants using focus groups or semi-structured interviews.

Enrollment: 12 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged between 18-65
• Capacity to give informed consent as determined by the MDT and through following informed consent processes.
• Admitted into the inpatient ward
• Can complete DIALOG and DIALOG+

Exclusion criteria

• No capacity to consent
• Insufficient command of the English language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

DIALOG

Other group

Description:

This is the comparison group, they will complete the DIALOG measure biweekly for 5 months. DIALOG scores pre and post-intervention will be used in the analyses.

Treatment:

Behavioral: DIALOG

DIALOG+

Active Comparator group

Description:

This is the treatment group. The participants in this group have agreed to participate in DIALOG+ and will receive the intervention biweekly for 10 sessions (5 months). Pre and post-intervention DIALOG scores will be used in the analysis.

Treatment:

Behavioral: DIALOG+