NOn-Traditional providers to support the management of Elderly People
NOTEPAD
| Chief Investigator: | Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham |
| Principal Investigator: | Dr Heather Burroughs |
| Study Co-ordinator: | Tom Shepherd |
| Funder name / reference number: | HS&DR 13/54/34 |
| Year | 2015-2017 |
Study design
The specific aim is to refine a community-based psychosocial intervention for older people with anxiety and/or depression. The intervention will comprise a two-stage process of one-to-one contact, utilizing behavioural activation (BA), based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and including the option of sign-posting to group activity.
Primary objective
Phase 1: synthesis of evidence to refine the intervention: qualitative study and analysis.
Phase 2: will assess the feasibility of recruiting and training third sector practitioners to be able to deliver the psychosocial intervention refined in Phase 1 to older people with anxiety and/or depression.
Phase 3: comprises a feasibility study to evaluate whether we can recruit general practices and patients into the study, whether third sector practioners (NTPs) can deliver the intervention to older people, with sufficient fidelity; whether this approach is acceptable to patients, general practitioners and the third sector providers, and gather data to inform a definitive randomized controlled trial.
Interventions
Psychosocial intervention for older people with anxiety and depression, delivered by third sector support workers.
Training Materials
The Notepad training programme aims to train workers from the third sector to deliver a psychological intervention to older people in the community who have depression and/or anxiety.
The training programme is delivered over 3 days, and by the end of the training support workers should be able to deliver an individually tailored intervention on principles of Behavioural Activation (BA) to depressed and/or anxious older people.