Let's Get Organized Feasibility Study

Örebro University, Sweden

Status

Completed

Conditions

Mental Disorder

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Treatments

Behavioral: Let's Get Organized

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03659279

ORU 2015/015

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to pilot test the Let's Get Organized (LGO) Occupational Therapy intervention in a Swedish context by exploring possible enhancements in time management skills, aspects of executive functioning, and satisfaction with daily occupations in persons with time-management difficulties due to neurodevelopmental and/or mental disorders.

Method:

A pre-post design with 3 and 12-months follow-up is used.

The LGO intervention is a manual-based group intervention aiming to enhance time-management, targeted to persons with mental or neurodevelopmental disorders. The LGO is conducted as 10 weekly 1.5-hour group sessions. Two trained group leaders, lead each group of 6-8 participants. Goal-directed and other learning strategies are used to train effective time management habits such as maintaining a calendar and wearing a watch. All group sessions follow the same format, and each session has a set theme. Group sessions are structured with a slide presentation and a course manual, and information from the group leaders is intermixed with discussion among the participants and tasks to complete.

The primary outcome of the study is self-reported time management measured by the Assessment of Time Management Skills (ATMS-S). Secondary outcomes are executive functioning measured with the Weekly Calendar Planning Activity (WCPA) and satisfaction with daily occupations, which is measured with the interview-administered questionnaire Satisfaction with Daily Occupations 13 items (SDO-13).

Data will be collected before intervention start (pre intervention), after intervention completion (post intervention) and 3 and 12 months post intervention completion. The ATMS will be collected at all four time points. The WCPA and SDO-13 will be collected pre, post and 12 months post intervention.

Enrollment

75 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

confirmed or suspected diagnosis of a mental disorder, such as affective disorder or schizophrenia, or neurodevelopmental disorder, such as autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder/attention deficit disorder
self-reported difficulties in time management in daily life to an extent that affects functioning in daily life negatively

Exclusion criteria