GiVE 2: Increasing access to CBT for psychosis patients
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Increasing access to CBT for psychosis patients: a feasibility, randomized controlled trial evaluating brief, targeted CBT for distressing voices delivered by Assistant Psychologists
IRAS ID
255920
Contact name
Mark Hayward
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN16166070
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 7 months, 30 days
Research summary
Psychosis is a type of mental health problem. People with psychosis usually experience distressing delusional beliefs and/or voice hearing. The National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) recommends Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) as one of the best treatments for psychosis. But only 10% of people with psychosis have the chance to receive CBT. CBT is scarce because it can be quite long and needs to be delivered by highly trained therapists. We want to see if a shorter version of CBT that is delivered by therapists with less training will be helpful for people who hear voices. Our research aims to give more people with psychosis the chance to receive a helpful talking therapy.
Participants of the study will be psychosis patients in NHS community secondary care adult mental health services who are currently experiencing distressing voice hearing.
The study will run over two sites: (1) Sussex Partnership Trust and (2) Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.
The study will recruit 90 people with psychosis who will be randomly be allocated into one of three groups; (1) 30 participants will receive 8 sessions of Guided self-help CBT intervention for distressing VoicEs (GiVE) (2) 30 participants will receive 8 sessions of Supportive Counselling that is not specifically about hearing voices (3) 30 participants will continue with their usual care. Participants will be enrolled in the study for 28 weeks in total.
This is a feasibility study. Our findings will tell us if it is possible to run a larger version of this study. We will only find out if the therapy works when we run this larger study.
REC name
London - Surrey Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/LO/2091
Date of REC Opinion
23 Jan 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion