Clinical trial NCT05761600: Learning Disability Group Art Therapy: Looking and Asking
Official title: Group Art Therapy Practice for People With a Learning Disability (GATher-LD): A Qualitative Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Learning Disability, Adult
Mental Health
Lead sponsor: Queen Mary University of London
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Barts & The London NHS Trust
name: East London NHS Foundation Trust
First posted: 2023-03-09
Enrollment: 22
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: There are three different participant groups in this study. They are:

1. Professionally qualified and HCPC registered Arts Therapists delivering group arts therapy in the community settings in the UK
2. Adults with a learning disability who are currently attending an arts therapy group
3. An identified support person who is well-known to the service user (e.g. NHS staff, paid support staff or family members who are carers) who provides practical and/or emotional support to the person with a learning disability attending the art therapy group

Brief summary: A qualitative study of group art therapy in England for adults with a learning disability accessing community services. Different stakeholder views and experiences will be gathered using ethnographically-informed group observation, semi-structured individual interviews and a focus group. People with a learning disability will support the data analysis and dissemination of findings in accessible means.


Eligibility criteria: INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Participants who are art therapists must:

* Be a HCPC registered arts therapist practicing in the UK
* Have experience of delivering group arts therapy in a community setting to this population
* Be able to give informed consent and communicate in English

Participants who are adults with a learning disability must:

* Be 18 years old or over
* Have a diagnosed learning disability or be accessing an NHS specialist learning disability service or using their personal budget to access a third sector art therapy group for this population
* Have experienced mental distress, have a diagnosed mental health condition or be accessing support for their mental health
* Be currently accessing group arts therapy
* Be able to give informed consent with adapted communication aids and approaches to meet their communication preferences
* Have a level of verbal ability to ensure they can communicate their views and meaningfully engage in the study

Participants who are paid support staff or family carers must:

* Be 18 years old or over
* Be identified by the person with a learning disability as someone who knows them well and could represent the carer perspective in this study
* Be able to give informed consent
* Have adequate command of the English to be able to meaningfully engage in the study

Participants will be excluded if they:

* Are unable to engage in the informed consent process; this is likely to exclude people who have a more severe form of learning disability
* Delivering the arts therapy group on an inpatient or acute ward
* Trainee arts therapists, or those who have yet to complete registration with the HCPC

Primary outcomes:
measure: To understand the features of current group art therapy practice for people with a learning disability
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Identify the potential active ingredients of art therapy with this client group through describing the procedures used by art therapists
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Understand how people with a learning disability experience art therapy to identify helpful therapist behaviours and highlight possible future domains of outcome measurement
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Identify the components of the intervention, which includes dynamic administration and how best to include the person's network
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: London
country: United Kingdom
facility: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
state: Kent
city: Salford
country: United Kingdom
facility: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
state: Manchester
city: Bristol
country: United Kingdom
facility: Sirona Adult Learning Disability Health Service
city: Coventry
country: United Kingdom
facility: Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
city: London
country: United Kingdom
facility: East London NHS Foundation Trust
Study officials:
affiliation: Queen Mary University of London
name: Nicki Power
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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