Experiences of therapeutic relationships with health professionals, v1

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Adults with learning disabilities experiences of therapeutic relationships with NHS health professionals in a specialist community service

• IRAS ID

  321563

• Contact name

  Bethany Driver

• Contact email

  b.driver@uea.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of East Anglia

• Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier

  N/A, N/A

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 6 months, 20 days

• Research summary

  This study is looking at how adults with learning disabilities (LDs) experience therapeutic relationships with health staff.
  
  People with LDs often have contact with many different health services and staff to support them with varying needs. These needs can sometimes be met within mainstream health services, but sometimes they may need support from more specialist services. It is common for people with LDs to have had difficult experiences in the past which may make their relationships with health staff difficult or frightening for them now. It is important to focus on creating positive experiences of relationships with health staff for adults with a LD, so they can feel safe and supported when receiving health care.

  Research tells us that both people LDs and health staff think that the relationship between them is very important in their care. People with LDs often do not get to take part in research which is problematic as it is important to understand more about how services work from the people who access them. We hope that this study will help services to better understand what is important for adults with LDs in their relationships with health staff from their own perspective. This may mean that health staff make changes in how they develop and keep relationships with adults LDs in the future. This is important because we know that the relationship developed between adults with a LD and health staff is an important part of their care.

  We will explore this by interviewing 6-10 service users who are receiving care from an NHS specialist community LD service and asking them about their relationships with the health staff. We will then analyse the data using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to see how individuals make sense of their relationships with health staff.

• REC name

  HSC REC A

• REC reference

  23/NI/0016

• Date of REC Opinion

  30 Mar 2023

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion