IPTA during lockdown - Qualitative study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
What was the impact of COVID-19 on adolescents’ experience receiving interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-A) for the treatment of their depression?
IRAS ID
316257
Contact name
Aesha Aseri
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Alderhey children's hospital NHS foundation trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 3 months, 0 days
Research summary
Interpersonal therapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) is an evidenced based treatment for depression (within the NICE guidelines it’s recommended as a second line intervention if 3 months of CBT hasn’t been effective). It is time limited and offered weekly over 12 sessions with 3 additional parent/carer sessions offered.
The therapy has a focus on relationships that is integral to the model. IPT-A helps adolescents to make sense of the difficulties they are experiencing and to understand how their relationships with other people contributed to how they feel and how their depression symptoms impact on relationships.
The Covid 19 pandemic has impacted mental health in all age populations including the mental health of children and adolescents.
The Pandemic is hypothesised to have impacted on young people’s social and family relationships and we wanted to know what impact it had on young people's experience of a therapy focused on improving relationships in the treatment of depression.
Therefore, it is important to know if this has impacted the young person's experience of the therapy in any way.Aim-
In this study we will explore children and adolescents experiences of interpersonal therapy during Covid19 Pandemic at 3 different community child and adolescent mental health clinical services.
Method-
This will be a qualitative research where children who have received IPT-A at Alder Hey Community CAMHS service, Young People's Advisory Service and Sefton Children's Service. Participants will be selected by convenience sampling.In depth interviews will be collected from these children and thematically analysed.
Review of literature
Key words – children and adolescents with depression, depression and Interpersonal therapy in children, depression and covid 19 pandemic, psychotherapy offered during covid.
For reviewing the literature, we have searched databases Psychinfo, Embase and Medline.
There have been few studies that have looked at impact of Covid 19 on psychological therapies.REC name
North West - Greater Manchester Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/NW/0318
Date of REC Opinion
20 Dec 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion