Emotion Regulation and Brain Injury - version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Emotion Regulation and Brain Injury: An investigation into a group psycho-education intervention
IRAS ID
224613
Contact name
Leanne Rowlands
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Bangor University
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 6 months, 3 days
Research summary
Emotion Regulation and Brain Injury: An investigation into a group psycho-education intervention
The ability to effectively regulate emotions is crucial for our daily lives and well-being. Often, survivors of brain injury have difficulties in this capacity. Little is known about the psychological mechanisms that make brain-injured patients vulnerable to emotion dysregulation. Additionally, there are few interventions aimed at improving emotion regulation (ER) in patients with brain injury.
This study aims to investigate how important various brain processes are for ER, and whether we can improve ER and self-awareness through a group psycho-education intervention. This involves educating a group of patients about ER through using psychological concepts. We will investigate whether any improvement is stable over time, and how important the relationship with the therapist is for improvement. There are several benefits; patients may improve their abilities to regulate emotions. The results may be used for other rehabilitation services, and may improve our understanding of the brain processes involved in ER.
Patients will be allocated to two groups: Intervention Group and Waiting List control group. The repeated measures design means that the same participants will be used for both groups, so that all will eventually receive the intervention. Participants will be recruited from the North Wales Brain Injury Service (and Headforward Centre), and will be required to fill some questionnaires on ER and self-awareness, and complete neuropsychological and ER tasks. This may take 2 hours with breaks. Participants will then begin the 7-week intervention (or wait for 7 weeks, if they are in the waiting list group). These will be weekly 2 hour sessions. Afterwards, participants will be required to complete some of the tasks again, and after 2 months.
This project is KESS funded, meaning it is part funded by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and EU Social Fund.
REC name
Wales REC 5
REC reference
17/WA/0257
Date of REC Opinion
1 Sep 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion