Using Mindfulness as a pre-therapy intervention Version 1.0

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Using mindfulness as a pre-therapy intervention to reduce dropout and improve engagement, in psychotherapy

• IRAS ID

  235831

• Contact name

  Meloney Brimblecombe

• Contact email

  m.brimblecombe1@unimail.derby.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Derby

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 2 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  The project aims to examine if using mindfulness as a pre-therapy intervention, with NHS Mental Health service users, before they engage in their allocated therapy pathway, will improve the users engagement and reduce dropout rates.
  This is compliant with the theory of consciousness raising, as per the stages of change model (Prochaska and DiClemente, 1984). Consciousness raising aims to educate the user in becoming more aware of the problems they are struggling with (consciously or not) and to help them identify, changes that they may make. Often in therapy people will dropout, as they are not really conscious, as to what is going wrong for them.

• REC name

  North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  21/NW/0174

• Date of REC Opinion

  8 Jul 2021

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion