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Mental health difficulties are highly prevalent among people with epilepsy with approximately 1 in 3 developing lifetime diagnoses of depression and anxiety disorders. However, there are significant barriers to accessing effective psychological treatment for people with epilepsy, including high costs, travel and mobility restrictions, cognitive difficulties (e.g. poor memory), and low involvement of mental health professionals in the routine epilepsy care.
As a digital mental health intervention, the Wellbeing Neuro Course offers an innovative solution to these barriers and aims to improve access to effective psychological care for adults with epilepsy within the Australian healthcare system. The Course uses the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy and compensatory cognitive rehabilitation to target several domains of mental health and cognitive function and was designed specifically for people with neurological conditions.
Digital mental health can be provided in both clinician-guided and unguided models (i.e., standalone intervention with no ongoing clinician contact), each with their own potential strengths and weaknesses. Guided models may be more expensive, and complex given that trained clinicians must be recruited. In contrast, unguided models have more public health potential as they involve lower costs and are easier to implement into routine care settings, but may be less efficacious for those with complex presentations who would benefit from clinician support. This research will help us evaluate these two models of care and potential for adults with epilepsy.
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Participant payment type and amount: $50