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Dr
Rachel
Hayes
r.a.hayes@exeter.ac.uk
Prof
Tamsin
Ford
t.j.ford@exeter.ac.uk
Anna
Hunt
A.Hunt4@exeter.ac.uk
Gemma
Giove-Hunt
gg434@cam.ac.uk
Amy
Bond
a.r.bond@exeter.ac.uk
Mood [affective] disorders
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The number of teenagers experiencing depression has increased over the last twenty years. Many find their development is affected, which can make it harder to recover and stay well. As a result, teenagers with depression risk school-failure, substance-misuse, self-harm as well as poor mental and physical health in adulthood, particularly if they have repeated episodes. Also, teenagers who are depressed often have relatives who suffer with depression, frequently their parents. Even if parents do not have depression, the stress of parenting a teenager with depression is substantial, and family relationships are sometimes damaged. We need more options for young people who still have symptoms after treatment for depression, or who recover but relapse quickly, so we developed Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers (MAC). MAC is a teenager friendly version of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Therapy (MBCT), which also supports carers to manage their own distress and to help their teenagers recover and stay well.
Mindfulness-based cognitive-therapy (MBCT) is an established treatment for adults with recurrent depression, yet is untested with young people. It is recommended by the National Institute for Care Excellence (NICE) for adults who have had three or more episodes of depression. But given the resulting damage to life chances and future health, we want to see if MBCT might protect teenagers who risk becoming these adults to avoid recurrent depression. MAC is teenager friendly version of MBCT, which also supports carers to manage their own distress and to help their teenagers.
This programme will have five parts that aim to:
1. Improve our practitioner training programme.
2. Co-produce an app to encourage practice and provide a more accurate measurement than self-report.
3. Test whether MAC works and is value for money with a random-control-trial comparing MAC to usual treatment and a comparison of the costs of services that young people and carers access.
4. Find out how MAC works and for whom it works best by exploring changes in how young people and carers think and relate to others.
5. Understand how best we can scale up MAC by using data gathered in the other parts with additional interviews with young people, carers and practitioners.
Young people and parents who have received MAC designed some MAC materials, advised which outcomes to study, how to measure them, and co-wrote this application. Three co-applicants with lived experience and our PPI lead will coordinate advisory groups throughout the Programme.
Co-produced plain language summaries will be distributed using multiple media through mental health networks such as the Mental Elf. Our links to the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Programmes (previously known as IAPT) and Mindfulness centres will support training and integration of MAC into services.
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The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Observational type: Qualitative;
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Dr
Rachel
Hayes
r.a.hayes@exeter.ac.uk
Anna
Hunt
A.Hunt4@exeter.ac.uk
Amy
Bond
a.r.bond@exeter.ac.uk
Prof
Tamsin
Ford
t.j.ford@exeter.ac.uk
Gemma
Giove-Hunt
gg434@cam.ac.uk
The study is sponsored by CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST and funded by NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) .
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