It is not known whether facilitation of groups composed by local healthcare staff and politicians can improve perinatal outcomes.
Therapists and nurses receive a one and half day training programme including basic principles of the cognitive behavioural approach, questioning, facilitation of groups, pacing, coping, relaxation, exercise, and pain management.
By engaging participants in both live and asynchronous communications, and by utilizing powerful software for the structuring and facilitation of group communications, online learning provides new forms for intellectual engagement.
In case the trial shows that BPT is effective, this will also be a reason to explore in more depth the potential therapeutic mechanisms involved in the treatment process, such as the linked experience of movement and emotion and the socio-therapeutic facilitation of group interactions through the body oriented interventions.
The group facilitator was a female mental health professional (psychiatrist/psychologist) with specific training in the facilitation of mindfulness groups.
SR was the Principal Investigator for this project, leading on the ethics application, project management, facilitation of focus groups and data coding and interpretation, PA was the researcher who recruited the participants, co-facilitated the focus groups, transcribed the interview data and helped with the data coding; DN and NS also helped with the data coding.
The organisation aimed to improve general health outcomes, primarily through home-based care (HBC), tracing patients on chronic treatment, and facilitation of support groups.
Four members of a Public Involvement in Research group (PIRg) contributed to preliminary discussions about the research and three were involved with many of the subsequent stages of the research process including the facilitation of discussion groups with residents.
In addition, facilitation of focus groups by the investigator who is also the project officer of iCAHE JC may have prohibited some participants from being critical of the iCAHE model.
They lasted an hour and were facilitated (alone) by one of the research team (ST, who has 20 years' experience as a qualitative researcher, including extensive facilitation of focus groups) and recorded.
