REDUCE BME URDU sub-study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Adaptation of the REDUCE trial intervention to the Urdu-speaking South Asian community
IRAS ID
283476
Contact name
Alison Knight
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
RIS University of Southampton
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 28 days
Research summary
The REDUCE Randomised control trial WS5: (January 2020 – Dec 2022)
The ADvisor interventions for patients and practitioners are being tested in work stream 5, a three-year randomised controlled trial including 400 patients in total. These patients are all English-speaking as the interventions have been developed in English and non-English speaking patients are excluded from the trial.
It is crucial that psychosocial interventions are made more accessible to people from BME communities (Gask et al., 2012; Van Loon et al., 2013). We have relevant expertise in the team, as co-applicant Chris Dowrick has researched this issue, through the NIHR PGfAR funded AMP (Access to Mental health in Primary care) programme (Dowrick et al., 2009). The critical issue is that the central mechanism of internet interventions is language (Chew-Graham et al., 2014). It is feasible to extend interventions like this to members of BME communities, but it does need careful additional work, as experience with the AMP programme indicated (Dowrick et al., 2016).
We have chosen to focus on the Urdu-speaking South Asian community as these are a significant subgroup of people who are relatively well clustered in the North West and also consist of a sizable proportion of the BME community. The overall prevalence of common mental disorders is not overall higher in the British South Asian community, though there are certain at-risk groups: women of reproductive age (McKenzie et al., 2008) are more susceptible to perinatal depression and elderly women are at higher risk of suicide compared to their White British counterparts (Forte et al., 2018). In addition South Asians are considered ‘harder to engage’ due to language and cultural barriers. They also tend to lack social support and are more likely to experience marked marital or relationship difficulties (Gater et al., 2010).REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
20/NI/0144
Date of REC Opinion
9 Nov 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion