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The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone
BACKGROUND: Going to university is an important milestone in many people’s lives. It can also be a time of significant challenge and stress. There are growing concerns about mental health amongst student populations including suicide risk. Student mental health and counselling services have the pote...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36932430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01273-7 |
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author | Taylor, Peter James Duxbury, Paula Moorhouse, Jane Russell, Chloe Pratt, Dan Parker, Sophie Sutton, Chris Lobban, Fiona Drake, Richard Eccles, Steve Ryder, David Patel, Rafeea Kimber, Elizabeth Kerry, Eirian Randles, Nathan Kelly, James Palmier-Claus, Jasper |
author_facet | Taylor, Peter James Duxbury, Paula Moorhouse, Jane Russell, Chloe Pratt, Dan Parker, Sophie Sutton, Chris Lobban, Fiona Drake, Richard Eccles, Steve Ryder, David Patel, Rafeea Kimber, Elizabeth Kerry, Eirian Randles, Nathan Kelly, James Palmier-Claus, Jasper |
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description | BACKGROUND: Going to university is an important milestone in many people’s lives. It can also be a time of significant challenge and stress. There are growing concerns about mental health amongst student populations including suicide risk. Student mental health and counselling services have the potential to prevent suicide, but evidence-based therapies are required that fit these service contexts. The Broad-Minded Affective Coping intervention (BMAC) is a brief (6 sessions), positive imagery-based intervention that aims to enhance students access to past positive experiences and associated emotions and cognitions. Pilot data provides preliminary support for the BMAC for students struggling with suicidal thoughts and behaviours, but this intervention has not yet been evaluated in the context of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST) is a feasibility RCT that aims to determine the acceptability and feasibility of evaluating the BMAC as an intervention for university students at risk of suicide within a larger efficacy trial. Key feasibility uncertainties have been identified relating to recruitment, retention, and missing data. Intervention acceptability and safety will also be evaluated. METHOD: MISST is a feasibility randomised controlled trial design, with 1:1 allocation to risk assessment and signposting plus BMAC or risk assessment and signposting alone. Participants will be university students who self-report experiences of suicidal ideation or behaviour in the past 3 months. Assessments take place at baseline, 8, 16, and 24 weeks. The target sample size is 66 participants. A subset of up to 20 participants will be invited to take part in semi-structured qualitative interviews to obtain further data concerning the acceptability of the intervention. DISCUSSION: The BMAC intervention may provide an effective, brief talking therapy to help university students struggling with suicidal thoughts that could be readily implemented into university student counselling services. Depending on the results of MISST, the next step would be to undertake a larger-scale efficacy trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The trial was preregistered (17 December 2021) on ISRCTN (ISRCTN13621293) and ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05296538). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40814-023-01273-7. |
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spelling | pubmed-100210632023-03-17 The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone Taylor, Peter James Duxbury, Paula Moorhouse, Jane Russell, Chloe Pratt, Dan Parker, Sophie Sutton, Chris Lobban, Fiona Drake, Richard Eccles, Steve Ryder, David Patel, Rafeea Kimber, Elizabeth Kerry, Eirian Randles, Nathan Kelly, James Palmier-Claus, Jasper Pilot Feasibility Stud Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Going to university is an important milestone in many people’s lives. It can also be a time of significant challenge and stress. There are growing concerns about mental health amongst student populations including suicide risk. Student mental health and counselling services have the potential to prevent suicide, but evidence-based therapies are required that fit these service contexts. The Broad-Minded Affective Coping intervention (BMAC) is a brief (6 sessions), positive imagery-based intervention that aims to enhance students access to past positive experiences and associated emotions and cognitions. Pilot data provides preliminary support for the BMAC for students struggling with suicidal thoughts and behaviours, but this intervention has not yet been evaluated in the context of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST) is a feasibility RCT that aims to determine the acceptability and feasibility of evaluating the BMAC as an intervention for university students at risk of suicide within a larger efficacy trial. Key feasibility uncertainties have been identified relating to recruitment, retention, and missing data. Intervention acceptability and safety will also be evaluated. METHOD: MISST is a feasibility randomised controlled trial design, with 1:1 allocation to risk assessment and signposting plus BMAC or risk assessment and signposting alone. Participants will be university students who self-report experiences of suicidal ideation or behaviour in the past 3 months. Assessments take place at baseline, 8, 16, and 24 weeks. The target sample size is 66 participants. A subset of up to 20 participants will be invited to take part in semi-structured qualitative interviews to obtain further data concerning the acceptability of the intervention. DISCUSSION: The BMAC intervention may provide an effective, brief talking therapy to help university students struggling with suicidal thoughts that could be readily implemented into university student counselling services. Depending on the results of MISST, the next step would be to undertake a larger-scale efficacy trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: The trial was preregistered (17 December 2021) on ISRCTN (ISRCTN13621293) and ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05296538). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40814-023-01273-7. BioMed Central 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10021063/ /pubmed/36932430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01273-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Taylor, Peter James Duxbury, Paula Moorhouse, Jane Russell, Chloe Pratt, Dan Parker, Sophie Sutton, Chris Lobban, Fiona Drake, Richard Eccles, Steve Ryder, David Patel, Rafeea Kimber, Elizabeth Kerry, Eirian Randles, Nathan Kelly, James Palmier-Claus, Jasper The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone |
title | The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone |
title_full | The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone |
title_fullStr | The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone |
title_full_unstemmed | The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone |
title_short | The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (BMAC) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone |
title_sort | mental imagery for suicidality in students trial (misst): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of broad-minded affective coping (bmac) plus risk assessment and signposting versus risk assessment and signposting alone |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36932430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01273-7 |
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