Increasing home practice in a group based intervention for LTC's
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Increasing home practice during a mindfulness and acceptance based intervention for long-term conditions.
IRAS ID
199070
Contact name
DARRAGH J O'SHEA
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 10 days
Research summary
In 2015, the department of Clinical Health Psychology, St Mary’s Hospital, London piloted a novel mindfulness acceptance based-intervention for out-patients with long-term health conditions (MABIL). The initial data suggest that the group based intervention is acceptable,feasible and effective. However, many participants failed to do the daily mindfulness practice at home. Such practice is considered an integral part of the course, with evidence demonstrating that the amount of mindfulness practice carried out at home mediates positive outcomes (Crane et al. 2014). Despite its apparent importance, it is commonly acknowledged that home practice is challenging. Meditating at home can be seen as requiring a change in habit, or behaviour. There is new evidence that 'story'-based approaches to behaviour change (video, film) are more effective than just 'telling people' to change or adopt a behaviour. We therefore worked alongside patients to develop a 'edutainment' video, with the aim of engaging participants with the course and the point of the home practice (Goddu, Raffel, & Peek, 2015; Murphy, Frank, Chatterjee, & Baezconde-Garbanati, 2013). The 'edutainment' video shows two main characters with long-term conditions (LTC), experiences of the MABIL course and home practice. Theory suggests that people are more likely to perform a behavior - if they observe the behavior being modeled by someone they relate to and in ways that appeal to them (Hinyard & Kreuter, 2007).
To test this, we plan to compare two MABIL groups - one with the addition of the 'edutainment' video (the intervention group), and one without (the control group). We expect that:
1)The intervention group will do more mindfulness practice than the control group.
2)The intervention group will feel more confident about the mindfulness practice and will have better outcome measures on their mood and their health than the control group.REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/1270
Date of REC Opinion
9 Aug 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion