Jones, RA, Richards, R, Palat, R et al. (6 more authors) (2022) Participants' experiences of mental health during a COVID-19 tailored ACT-based behavioural weight management intervention: a qualitative study. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 17 (1). 2123093. ISSN 1748-2623
Abstract
Purpose
We aimed to explore participants' experiences of mental health during an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)-based guided self-help intervention to support weight management in adults with overweight or obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic (SWiM-C: Supporting Weight Management during COVID-19).
Methods
We conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with twenty participants and used reflexive thematic analysis to identify patterns of meaning across the dataset relevant to mental health.
Results
Four themes were conceptualized: i) Mental health changes associated with SWiM-C, ii) External factors negatively impacted mental health and intervention engagement, iii) Use and impact of coping responses, and iv) Intervention preferences based on psychological needs.
Conclusions
Findings suggest that participants were exposed to multiple factors, both related to and external to the intervention, that negatively impact their mental health, yet ACT-based aspects of the SWiM-C intervention appeared to support participants to adaptively manage the decline in their mental health. The findings can be used to inform the development of future weight management interventions, such as through intervention personalization and the inclusion of more strategies that target emotional regulation.
Trial registration: ISRCTN 12107048, https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN12107048
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | COVID-19; obesity; mental health; interventions; psychological therapies; weight management |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2022 11:45 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2023 13:31 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17482... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17482631.2022.2123093 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191662 |