The service user experience of SlowMo therapy: A co-produced thematic analysis of service users' subjective experience.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

SlowMo is the first blended digital therapy for paranoia, showing significant small-moderate reductions in paranoia in a recent large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT). This study explored the subjective service-user experience of the SlowMo therapy content and design; the experience of the blended therapy approach, including the triangle of the therapeutic alliance; and the experience of the digital aspects of the intervention.

Design

Qualitative co-produced sub-study of an RCT.

Methods

Participants were 22 adult service users with schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis and persistent distressing paranoia, who completed at least one SlowMo therapy session and a 24-week follow-up, at one of 3 sites in Oxford, London, and Sussex, UK. They were interviewed by

SUBMITTER: Greenwood KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9873386 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature