Developing an OBtAIN-PD with logic modelling
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing an occupation-based complex intervention for living well with anxiety and Parkinson’s Disease (OBtAIN-PD): a logic modelling approach
IRAS ID
302129
Contact name
Chris Lovegrove
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Plymouth
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 30 days
Research summary
This research aims to identify the things that people with Parkinson’s, their care partners, and Occupational Therapists feel should be included in a new intervention to help people with Parkinson’s live well with anxiety.
This research will take a sample of people with Parkinson’s, care partners, and Occupational Therapists who have experience working with people with Parkinson’s and/or anxiety. With their permission, we will ask them to join an online group to design a new intervention for people with Parkinson’s living with anxiety. We will send participants an information pack before the group session to help give them ideas. There will be two different groups: one for people with Parkinson’s and care partners, the other for Occupational Therapists.
We will ask participants to contribute their ideas to develop something called a ‘logic model’. A logic model is a picture that shows the connections between resources, activities, and outcomes in a programme or plan, such as a new healthcare intervention. Logic models are useful for intervention development as they allow you to plan the intervention in a way that is more likely to be successful in the real world.
Once the initial logic model has been developed, we will check this with service managers from the National Health Service (NHS). The research team will then refine the intervention. Finally, we would like to check the intervention with the occupational therapy group to make sure that it makes sense to them.
We will also ask participants to complete a questionnaire that asks for some basic information about them. This will help the researchers to make sure they are including the voice of people from different groups.
The findings of this research will be used to develop a new intervention to help people with Parkinson’s live well with anxiety. In the future, this new intervention will be tested in a bigger research study called a feasibility randomised controlled trial.
REC name
North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/NW/0021
Date of REC Opinion
27 Jan 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion