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Research type
Research Study
Full title
Secure Care Hospital Evaluation of Manualised (interpersonal) Art-psychotherapy: A Randomised Controlled Trial
IRAS ID
319325
Contact name
Simon Hackett
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS Trust Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN57406593
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 2 months, 30 days
Research summary
In the past people who have a learning disability were often excluded from taking part in research. This means that knowing what works well for them is not always clear. Lots of psychotherapies available to help people with mental health difficulties are based on talking, which might not always be the best approach for people with learning disabilities/difficulties. Doing artwork or creative things within art psychotherapy can be a helpful way for people to communicate about themselves. Interpersonal art psychotherapy has been designed to help people with learning disabilities in secure care. The art psychotherapist encourages people to use creative ways to express the things they would like to feel better about.
We want to find out if interpersonal art psychotherapy is helpful and value for money for people with learning difficulties who are in secure care. We will be testing if interpersonal art psychotherapy works better than the standard care that is being provided. To do this we will need to recruit 200 people and put them into groups by chance, with half having interpersonal art psychotherapy and half on a waiting list for it. This is called a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Everyone in the study will get a chance to have interpersonal art psychotherapy.REC name
London - City & East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/LO/0026
Date of REC Opinion
10 Jan 2023
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion