Study to gather requirements for use in DBT game design v.1

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Study to gather requirements for use in the design of a computer game to help deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) using interviews with DBT clients and health care professionals (HCPs) v.1

• IRAS ID

  179478

• Contact name

  Sam Simpson

• Contact email

  sam.simpson@york.ac.uk

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 2 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  This study undertakes 1-to-1 interviews with clients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) within Dialectical Behaviour Therapy at the Tuke Centre, York. The interviews will cover their experience of and attitudes towards Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and their experience and use of technology. The interviews will allow me to gain more understanding of clients’ and HCPs’ experience of DBT. The data from the interviews will be used in the design of a computer game to help deliver DBT, which will result in a game design which is most fitting for clients undertaking DBT.
  
  DBT is a therapy that has been very effectively used with clients with Borderline Personality Disorder, an illness affecting emotion regulation, for over 20 years. It encourages clients to stop self-harming behaviours and find alternative ways to cope with strong emotional responses. DBT is a highly manualised and detailed therapy; because of this clients are recommended to be in DBT for 1-2 years. During treatment, clients can initially report feeling worse, because their usual coping strategies are being replaced by dealing with their emotions in new ways. To help with this, DBT gives clients access to therapists by phone and email for skills coaching. In addition, it is hoped that a game which reminds clients of the new skills they have learned and allows them to try out the new skills in a safe environment, will help them, as well as acting as an aide memoir at later stages in the treatment and after it has finished.

• REC name

  South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  15/SW/0191

• Date of REC Opinion

  17 Nov 2015

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion