Supporting carers with challenging behaviour after brain injury.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Development of a theoretical intervention to support family care givers to prevent, manage and cope with challenging behaviours in people following an Acquired/Traumatic Brain Injury (A/TBI).
IRAS ID
281916
Contact name
Julie Warrender
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Stirling
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
This research aims to develop a theoretical intervention which will help adult Family Care Givers (FCGs) reduce challenging behaviours, enabling FCGs to prevent, manage and cope better with the behaviours being displayed. This is the first of two phases with this the first of two ethics submissions, the first approval is sought for undertaking one to one interviews (Phase 1) of FCGs. The second ethics submission will be for the purpose of developing a theoretical intervention (phase 2) which is not part of this ethics submission.
This will be qualitative research with the first phase described below;
Phase 1 - One to one interviews. The interviews will consist of a topic guide of questions, giving the researcher an understanding of the behaviours being experienced and any education/training the participants may have had. The interviews will also give the FCGs an opportunity to say what they propose would be an effective theoretical intervention to support them as FCGs.
The aim of the interviews is for the researcher to gain an understanding from the FCGs as to what they report would be helpful in order to enable the FCGs to provide adequate control measures to manage the challenging behaviour being experienced. FCGs are key to informing this research as they know first hand what may have been useful. The data from the interviews will help inform the researcher what intervention may be useful for FCGs in the future.
2 - Phase 2 Development of a theoretical intervention. Following the interviews the researcher will develop a theoretical intervention#(s) in conjunction with the FCGs to help them prevent manage and cope with challenging behaviour. Further ethics approval will be sought once the researcher knows what intervention(s) is proposed.
REC name
North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2
REC reference
21/NS/0153
Date of REC Opinion
19 Jan 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion