Outcomes following specialist psychotherapy
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Effectiveness of Differing Psychotherapies Offered in a Specialist Psychotherapy Service – a benchmarking study.
IRAS ID
273884
Contact name
Stephen Kellett
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The University of Sheffield
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 6 days
Research summary
Tertiary level psychotherapy services, often regional centres, cater for particularly complex and enduring presentations. This is because patients using these services have been non-responsive to interventions offered in Primary and Secondary care. There is however little research evidence available regarding the effectiveness of tertiary care psychotherapy services and is therefore under-represented with regards to evidence compared to primary/secondary services. Such evidence for local tertiary care services is important to establish how tertiary care services compare to existing benchmarks set by randomised controlled trials.
The current study will offer an in-depth statistical analysis of a pre-existing routine outcome data-set collected by a Specialist Psychotherapy Service (SPS)in Sheffield NHS. Sheffield SPS routinely seek consent to enrol patients into a service/outcome evaluation. This includes measuring distress on a validated outcome measure at treatment: 1) start, 2) end, 3) monthly during and 4) follow-up. The dataset consists of approximately 600 cases. Areas of primary interest regarding data analysis includes: (1) the overall effectiveness of tertiary care psychotherapy, (2) comparisons of effectiveness between different tertiary care psychotherapies, (3) patterns of how clients show change (trajectories), and (4) how findings related to a range of demographic variables. These areas will be explored by analysing the dataset using advanced statitical analysis.
REC name
North West - Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/NW/0753
Date of REC Opinion
17 Dec 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion