Narrative Exposure Therapy for Adults With an Intellectual Disability

University of Nottingham

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: PTSD; Trauma, Psychological; Learning Disability; Intellectual Disability, Mild

Treatments: Other: Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06934109

24042

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this naturalistic single case series design is to investigate if an adapted Narrative Exposure Therapy protocol can be effective, is feasible, and acceptable for adults with a mile learning disability.

Participants will be complete three baseline sessions before taking part in Narrative Exposure Therapy using a manual that has been adapted for people with a learning disability. Trauma symptoms will be measured weekly using the Impact of Events scale adapted for intellectual disabilities. The person's carer will also complete an informant scale related to these symptoms (LANTS-IV). The client will also complete the CORE-LD at pre, and post therapy. Six weeks after the end of the intervention, the client and their carer will be invited to a feedback session to talk about how they found the intervention.

Enrollment: 12 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 and over
• Meet the criteria for having a mild ID as assessed by a clinical psychologist within the team
• English speaking
• Have capacity to consent
• The participant must be experiencing trauma related stress as assessed by themselves, the clinical psychologist and the research team
• Be able to travel to one of the therapy sites
• Carer participant must have ability to reflect and comment on the trauma related stress experienced by the client participant
• Carer must also be 18 years old or older and be English speaking.
• Carer must have known participant for 1 year or more.

Exclusion criteria

• They are substance dependent
• They are currently receiving another trauma-focused intervention
• Currently an inpatient
• Carers excluded if they lack capacity to consent to take part in research

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

Narrative Exposure Therapy treatment

Experimental group

Description:

All participants within the trial will receive narrative exposure therapy and be within the treatment arm.

Treatment:

Other: Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)