Gallagher, Stephen and O’Sullivan, Liam and Hughes, Zoe and O’Connell, Brenda (2020) Building Resources in Caregivers: Feasibility of a Brief Writing Intervention to Increase Benefit Finding in Caregivers. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 12 (2). pp. 513-531. ISSN 1758-0846

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The Building Resources in Caregivers (BRiC) is a pilot feasibility trial that compared the effects of a 2-week benefit finding writing expressive intervention to a control intervention, who wrote about the weather. Caregivers completed primary (benefit finding) and secondary (quality of life, depression and anxiety) outcome measures at pre (t1), immediately post-test (t2) and 1 month later (t3). They also completed measures relating to trial feasibility, difficulty, and acceptance. Using complete case analysis only, analysis revealed no effect of the intervention for primary or secondary outcomes. Despite this, there were no differences between the intervention and control groups on key feasibility measures. Caregivers in the control condition were less likely to recommend this to other caregivers. Moreover, qualitative commentary provided by caregivers suggested that not everyone enjoyed the writing, some found it stressful, offering up some explanation for our findings. Our pilot trial suggests that any future benefit-finding writing intervention would require several procedure modifications including tailoring to a specific cohort of caregivers, in particular those who like writing, before it has some utility as a psychosocial intervention.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association of Applied Psychology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite as: Gallagher, S., O’Sullivan, L., Hughes, Z. and O’Connell, B.H. (2020), Building Resources in Caregivers: Feasibility of a Brief Writing Intervention to Increase Benefit Finding in Caregivers. Appl Psychol Health Well-Being, 12: 513-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12195
Keywords:	benefitfinding; caregiver; expressive writing; family-carers; feasibility; intervention;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	15417
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12195
Depositing User:	Brenda O'Connell
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2022 16:57
Journal or Publication Title:	Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
Publisher:	Wiley
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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