A Feasibility Study for an Intervention to Reduce Diabetes Distress
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A Feasibility Study to Assess the Effectiveness and Practical Implementation of a Psychoeducational Intervention to Reduce Diabetes Distress in Individuals Living With Type 2 Diabetes and Their Partners.
IRAS ID
220918
Contact name
Martin Dempster
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 12 days
Research summary
This study aims to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a psycho-educational intervention to reduce diabetes distress, and improve health-related and behavioural outcomes in individuals living with Type 2 diabetes and their partners. To do this we will invite individuals with Type 2 diabetes who have recently completed a structured diabetes education course, along with their partner (if living with someone) to register their interest in taking part. The programme will be delivered in one-day, over 6 hours (including breaks), and will be facilitated by a clinical psychologist or a PhD student, and co-facilitated by either a diabetes specialist nurse or another clinical psychologist. We will also ask participants to complete questionnaires at three time points across a span of 6 months i.e. before, immediately after, and a period of time (3-4 months) after attending the programme. This will allow us to assess the effectiveness of the intervention for our named outcome measures, across the three time points mentioned.The questionnaires for persons with Type 2 diabetes will ask questions about basic demographic and medical information; emotional distress related to diabetes; relationship quality; their confidence i n managing diabetes; self-management behaviour; assessment of health outcome; and feedback on acceptability and feasibility of the programme. Partners (if participating) will only complete questions on basic demographic and medical information; emotional distress related to diabetes; relationship quality; and the feasibility/ acceptability of the programme. Participants who do not receive a place on the programme will be invited to complete corresponding questionnaires (excluding questions about acceptability/ feasibility) across the same time points as intervention participants. This will form our control group and will enable us to compare effect sizes across outcomes between participant groups, as well as across time. Importantly, the results of this study will inform the next developmental phase of this programme.
REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
17/NI/0021
Date of REC Opinion
23 Feb 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion