A feasibility study of a cross-diagnostic, CBT-based psychological intervention for acute mental health inpatients: Results, challenges, and methodological implications.

CONCLUSION: These issues, and the feasibility of randomization and rater-blinding, have important implications for the design of future trials. Overall, this study provides an important insight into the challenges and complexities of developing and evaluating a comprehensive psychological intervention service in an acute psychiatric setting. PRACTITIONER POINTS: Individual therapy sessions can be delivered in the acute environment. The EDAPTS intervention showed some promise on outcomes of distress and self-efficacy. Delivery of nurse-led groups was challenging and may need to be embedded into routine clinical practice to increase intervention and outcome reach. More parameters, for example, randomization at cluster level, should be tested before progressing to an adequately powered, single-blind, definitive cluster RCT. PMID: 30506981 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Br J Clin Psychol Source Type: research