The transportability of Memory Specificity Training (MeST): adapting an intervention derived from experimental psychology to routine clinical practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accumulating evidence shows that a cognitive factor associated with a worsening of depressive symptoms amongst people with and without diagnoses of depression - reduced Autobiographical Memory (rAMS) - can be ameliorated by a group cognitive training protocol referred to as Memory Specificity Training (MeST). When transporting interventions such as MeST from research to routine clinical practices (RCPs), modifications are inevitable, with potentially a decrease in effectiveness, so called voltage drop. We examined the transportability of MeST to RCPs as an add-on to treatment as usual with depressed in- and out- patients.

Methods

We examined whether 1) MeST was adaptable to local needs of RCPs by implementing MeST in a joint decision-making process in seven Belgia

SUBMITTER: Martens K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6359774 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature