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ACT for Older Adults Who Hear Voices (HSCED)

NCT06420024 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2

Last updated 2024-08-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hearing voices (often referred to as "auditory hallucinations") is a common experience amongst the older adult population (those 65+ years of age) and can be associated with increased psychological distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychological therapy that aims to reduce distress of hearing voices by altering the relationship someone has with voices, and has been shown to improve distress levels for working age adults who hear voices. ACT also appears to be a suitable intervention for older adults distressed by hearing voices, however, there is currently no research that has examined this. Therefore, research is now needed to evaluate whether ACT can support older adults who experience distress from hearing voices.

This study will use a case study based research method, known as a Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) series. This method will involve 3 participants who will receive ACT for hearing voices. This will be delivered across approximately twelve 90-minute sessions. Participants will be asked to complete measures that assess areas such as distress levels and quality of life, which will be completed before, during and after therapy. A detailed report of each participant's level of progress will then be generated and evaluated by expert judges. This will determine whether progress has occurred as a direct result of the therapy, or due to other reasons, and allow conclusions to be drawn about the use of ACT for older adults distressed by hearing voices.

Participants will be recruited from either Local Mental Health Teams at Nottinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust, or from the Hearing Voices Group in Beeston (Nottingham). Participants will be required to be age 65+ years and currently experience hearing voices that cause them distress.

This study will be funded by the NHS and is estimated to last approximately 12-months with 5-months of participant involvement.

Conditions

  • Hearing Voices When No One is Talking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

See: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-306-48581-8\_1

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Nottingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Danielle De Boos, DClinPsy · University of Nottingham

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-08-02
Primary Completion
2024-06-20
Completion
2024-06-20

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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