Reading, CBT and Chronic Pain Feb 2014

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Comparing Get into Reading and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Chronic Pain

• IRAS ID

  151959

• Contact name

  Josie Billington

• Contact email

  Jbilling@liverpool.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Liverpool

• Research summary

  This study will undertake preliminary investigations into the efficacy for chronic pain sufferers of a shared read aloud intervention - Get into Reading (GIR), developed by national charity The Reader Organisation – as compared with a standard intervention for chronic pain, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). We hypothesise that, where CBT characteristically ’manages’ emotions by means of
  systematic techniques, GIR helps turn passive experience of suffering emotion into articulate contemplation of painful concerns, and that GIR might offer an alternative and/or follow-up to CBT for chronic pain sufferers. The project will compare CBT and GIR groups using mixed methods: standard measures, qualitative interviews and participant pain diaries will assess physical and
  psychological health; transcribed video-recorded group sessions will be subject to analysis by a multidisciplinary (literary, psychological, linguistic) team of experts. Single case experiments will assess the effect of GIR as a follow-up to CBT, relative to the outcomes for pain patients who receive no follow-up to CBT

• REC name

  North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/NW/0263

• Date of REC Opinion

  22 May 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion