Traumatic symptoms and resilience in people with psychosis.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Investigating trajectories of traumatic symptoms and resilience in people with experience of psychosis.
IRAS ID
246764
Contact name
Carolina Campodonico
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Manchester
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 4 months, 1 days
Research summary
Experiencing an episode of psychosis can be truly terrifying, and many studies have reported of individuals developing post-traumatic symptoms such as nightmares and flashbacks as a consequence of it. Despite almost one in two people with first-episode psychosis (FEP) display clinically relevant traumatic symptoms related their experience, research has so far failed to identify which factors contribute to different outcomes for this population.
This study aims to investigate which factors are associated with a resilient outcome, meaning which factors are more likely to predict a partial or full recovery from the traumatic symptoms associated with psychosis. This is important as traumatic symptoms can massively complicate the treatment of people with psychosis. The research uses a longitudinal design, which consists in repeating the same measures over multiple time points.
After an initial face-to-face assessment, the participants will be contacted other three times by phone (every two months) to complete the follow-up assessments. During the first meeting, the participants will complete different questionnaires that measure traumatic symptoms and a series of factors generally associated with resilience. At the follow-up assessments, only the questionnaires measuring the traumatic symptoms will be filled in, along with few questions aimed to control for any current relevant caused of stress. This design will enable us to identify different types of trajectories, meaning different groups of people whose symptoms follow a similar course. After we will identify the “resilient” group, we will be able to reconnect this group to the factors measured at the beginning and control if any of them is consistently associated with the resilient outcome.
REC name
North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/NW/0469
Date of REC Opinion
12 Nov 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion