Validating SNAP Mental Health Tool
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Validating the adapted SNAP for Mental Health (SNAP: the Support Needs Approach for Patients)
IRAS ID
330500
Contact name
Morag Farquhar
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of East Anglia
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 4 months, 0 days
Research summary
Background/Aims:
Health care should be driven by patients’ needs. This is known as “person-centred care”. Our team developed a way to do this called the Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP: https://thesnap.org.uk/). SNAP uses: 1) a tool (a booklet called the “How are you?” Booklet, containing a set of questions to help patients think about areas where they need more support) and 2) a focused conversation between the patient and healthcare professional to help address those needs.
SNAP was developed for patients with chronic lung disease but is being successfully used with patients with chronic progressive conditions more widely. Mental health professionals suggested SNAP may also be useful for their service users but that the SNAP Tool may need adapting. In response we ran a study to adapt the tool for mental health services-users. We now need to check the adapted tool covers relevant areas of need and makes sense to service users. We also want to explore how SNAP can be used in mental health services.
What does the study involve?
Adults who currently, or recently, used mental health services will be invited to take part in either:
1) a discussion group – to consider the layout, relevance, and use of the adapted tool (we aim to run four groups of 3-4 people per group, either on-line or face-to-face); or,
2) a survey which asks people to complete the adapted tool (we will aim for 40 completed surveys).
Two healthcare trusts will help us find people to take part.
Working with Public and Patient Involvement advisors we will use findings from the discussion groups and survey to produce the final version of the adapted SNAP Tool for mental health service users. We will also identify possible ways of using SNAP in mental health services.
Funded by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - South Yorkshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/YH/0206
Date of REC Opinion
21 Sep 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion