Routine enquiry of trauma and abuse in community LD services
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The phenomenological experiences of practitioner psychologists and service users of the routine enquiry of trauma and abuse within adult learning disabilities community teams in the North East of England.
IRAS ID
275013
Contact name
S J (Ash ) Summers
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Teesside University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 4 months, 26 days
Research summary
The Department of Health (DoH) (2008) advises that all people who enter mental health settings are routinely asked the following question during an initial assessment: “Have you experienced physical, sexual or emotional abuse at any one time in your life?”. This is known as "Routine Enquiry". There is currently no literature on the topic of routine enquiry of trauma and abuse within a Learning Disabilities (LD) population . A recent clinical audit within Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (2018) identified that in 59% of cases there was no clear evidence that routine enquiry of trauma and abuse had been asked in Community Learning Disability Teams (CLDTs) and Forensic LD teams. This study aims to gain insight into the lived experiences of being asked about trauma and abuse routinely as an adult with a Learning Disability (LD) and the lived experiences of practitioner psychologists making the enquiry. This will be achieved through the semi-structured interviewing of all participants, followed by Multiperspectival Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the data. It is hoped that this will provide important insights for clinicians across professions, with a specific focus on the specialty of Clinical Psychology, with regards to routine enquiry, and in addition provide supporting evidence for the need for further research in this area to support routine enquiry in LD populations.
REC name
North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/NE/0123
Date of REC Opinion
25 Jun 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion