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Evidence

LLTTF Classes Pilot

Project: A community-based pilot randomised controlled study of life skills classes for individuals with low mood and depression.

Target group: Community based adults Aged 16 years of age or older with at least mild symptoms of depression/low mood.

Settings: Glasgow (Scotland) and Derry/Londonderry (N.Ireland).

Intervention: Pilot study of the Living Life to the Full class-based life-skills course.

Support offered: LLTTF classes were delivered by the charitable organisations Action on Depression (AOD) and AWARE Defeat Depression and involved eight, weekly classes that taught a range of CBT-based life skills. Classes were 90-minutes long, attended by up to 16 participants and were conducted in a classroom setting based in a locally accessible location e.g. library.

Outcomes: There was effective recruitment (n=46), randomisation, uptake and adherence with 21 Immediate Access (IA) and 25 Delayed Access Control (DAC) participants. Participants attended on average 4.46 of the 8 sessions (sd 3.06), 65.2% attended more than half of all sessions. The provisional results in the pilot suggest the intervention may improve both anxiety and depression.

Participant characteristics at baseline:

Characteristic Statistic n = 46
Age mean (sd) 43.7 (13.0)
Sex: Male n (%) 16 (35%)
Medication: Yes n (%) 24 (52%)
Chronicity>1 year n (%) 43 (93.5%)
Not all the time n (%) 1 (2%)
Not given n (%) 1 (2%)
PHQ-9 mean (sd) 14.5 (6.5)
GAD-7 mean (sd) 12.0 (5.5)

 

What else?

Participant satisfaction – The mean satisfaction on the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire was 28 out of 32 (sd 4.8).

Power calculation – Mood score and follow-up rate data indicated that 126 participants in total (two groups of 63) would need to be randomised in the future large RCT to provide adequate power to detect pre-post changes in outcome measures.

Papers/outputs:  McClay, C.-A. et al. (2015) A community-based pilot randomised controlled study of life skills classes for individuals with low mood and depression. BMC Psychiatry, 15(17), (doi:10.1186/s12888-015-0384-2)

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