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Emotional disclosure as a form of therapeutic intervention on health-related outcomes of people with progressive, advanced, chronic diseases

Lead Research Organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Department Name: Division of Psychiatry

Abstract

A mixed-methods PhD to:
1) review the evidence on the acceptability and efficacy of expressive writing in people with progressive, advanced, chronic diseases and their family carers and to undertake a review of the theoretical frameworks proposed to explain how expressive writing may produce health benefits
2) use this understanding to develop with patients, family carers and health and social professionals an expressive writing intervention tailored for people with progressive advanced chronic diseases to produce beneficial improvements in pain, sleep, depression, anxiety, and stress and cause no adverse effect
3) to undertake an exploratory study to test the feasibility and acceptability of expressive writing for people with progressive advance chronic diseases and their family carers
4) to explore patients and family carers experiences of completing an expressive writing intervention

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Studentship Projects

Project Reference Relationship Related To Start End Student Name
ES/P000592/1 30/09/2017 29/09/2028
2095729 Studentship ES/P000592/1 30/09/2018 30/12/2021 Daisy McInnerney
NE/W502716/1 31/03/2021 30/03/2022
2095729 Studentship NE/W502716/1 30/09/2018 30/12/2021 Daisy McInnerney