Seeking Help for Anxiety/Depression by cOmmunity-dWelling older adults
SHADOW
| Project title |
How interventions to facilitate help-seeking for anxiety and/or depression work among community-dwelling older adults: a realist review. |
| Short name |
SHADOW – Seeking Help for Anxiety/Depression by cOmmunity-dWelling older adults |
| Chief Investigator: |
Dr Tom Kingstone |
| Co-investigator: |
Prof Carolyn Chew-Graham (Keele University), Dr Nadia Corp (Keele University), Dr Tamsin Fisher (Keele University), Dr Samantha Hider (Keele University), and Dr Geoffrey Wong (University of Oxford) |
| Funder name / reference number: | This study is funded by the NIHR SPCR grant number 642. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. |
| Year | 2023-2025 |
Aims and objectives
This research aims to understand how, why, for whom in which contexts and to what extent interventions that facilitate help-seeking for anxiety and/or depression work among community-dwelling older adults (60+ years of age).
Objectives:
- To describe current empirical evidence for interventions that facilitate help-seeking for anxiety and/or depression among community-dwelling older adults.
- To use data from included documents to develop a realist programme theory that explains when, how, why for whom and to what extent these interventions work
- To use the understanding in the programme theory to develop a range of relevant outputs for dissemination.
What will we do?
We are going to conduct a review of current evidence. We will search a broad range of literature from published journals, public sector reports, policy documents, and knowledge from experts. We will identify interventions that support older adults to seek help for anxiety and/or depression. We will tease out key information that tells us which interventions work, how they work and for which sorts of people. Findings will help us to enhance intervention design in the future.
Outputs
Watch this space.
