PR - Talking Therapy & Liver Transplant
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring if there is a need for establishing a talking therapy clinic within a liver transplant service
IRAS ID
198432
Contact name
Paul McKie
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Roehampton
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
PSYC 16/211, Roehampton Ethics Application Reference
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 1 months, 29 days
Research summary
The central concern of the research study is to address whether talking therapy/counselling would be of benefit to the adult liver patient population, as part of an existing liver transplant service. The proposed research will act as an exploratory study, a scoping exercise, to explore the experiences of liver transplant patients and to establish what they feel about having a talking therapy service, which may provide the basis for ongoing research.
The semi-structured interview will act as the main component of collecting data. The interview will hopefully permit a rich insight into the patient experience and to explore the prospective, or unlikely benefit, of talking therapy being made accessible as an embedded service to liver transplant patients.
The interviews will take place on site on the hospital grounds and require the use of the seminar rooms in the Institute of Liver Studies. A total of six to eight participants will be invited from the adult liver transplant population who are all under the care of the Institute of Liver Studies. Once the participants have been selected and consented to take part, a date for the interviews will likely to take place in April. The duration of the interview will be approximately 60 minutes. Following the interview, there will also be an opportunity for the participant to voice any concerns that they may have. The length of the proposed study will last from March 2016 to June 2016.REC name
South East Scotland REC 01
REC reference
16/SS/0092
Date of REC Opinion
29 Apr 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion