Mobile app-delivered motivational interviewing for women on eating disorder treatment waitlists : pilot and feasibility study
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Psychology, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Halicki-Asakawa, Amané
issued: 2023-08-17T18:40:12Z
issued: 2023
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Despite facing a myriad of adverse health outcomes such as high mortality rates and cardiovascular complications, women with eating disorders (EDs) are less likely to access mental health treatment compared to other clinical populations due to several barriers (e.g., long wait­lists, scarcity of treatment centres, egosyntonicity of pathology). Notably, a significant increase in ED clinic waitlists has been observed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening existing treatment gaps. Given that delays in treatment have important clinical correlates (e.g., entrenchment of ED pathology), exploring new methods of mental health service delivery for this population is of critical concern. Mobile app-based motivational interviewing (MI) delivered prior to the start of treatment may be an effective way to improve accessibility by simultaneously addressing structural (e.g., travel costs) and individual (e.g., low motivation) barriers to care. Within the current multiphasic mixed-methods study, MI-Coach: ED, a novel mobile app designed to increase motivation among women waitlisted for ED treatment, was developed and pilot-tested. Phase I adapted the content and interface of an existing mobile app based on evidence-based principles (MI-Coach©) for an ED population. Phase II pilot-tested the mobile app with a sample of treatment-seeking women (n = 11) recruited from ED treatment clinic waitlists in British Columbia, Canada for a four-week period. Descriptive analyses of app use, pre- and post-test clinical characteristics, and thematic content analyses of semi-structured interviews conducted with a subset of participants (n = 8), indicated that most participants found the app acceptable, easy to use, and useful. Themes pertaining to previous experiences navigating treatment, the overall acceptability of the app, impacts of app use, and suggested modifications to the app were generated. Findings from this study support the use of MI-Coach: ED to deliver MI to individuals …
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/85503
note: MOBILE APP-DELIVERED MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING FOR WOMEN ON EATING DISORDER TREATMENT WAITLISTS: PILOT AND FEASIBILITY STUDY by Amané Halicki-Asakawa B.A., McGill University, 2019 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Clinical Psychology) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) August 2023 © Amané Halicki-Asakawa, 2023 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis entitled: Mobile App-Delivered Motivational Interviewing for Women on Eating Disorder Treatment Waitlists: Pilot and Feasibility Study submitted by Amané Halicki-Asakawa in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts. Dr. Maya Libben, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences Supervisor Dr. Susan Holtzman, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Lesley Lutes, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Sarah Purcell, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science University Examiner Dr. Brian Dalton, Faculty of Health and Social Development External Examiner iii Abstract Despite facing a myriad of adverse health outcomes such as high mortality rates and cardiovascular complications, women with eating disorders (EDs) are less likely to access mental health treatment compared to other clinical populations due to several barriers (e.g., long wait-lists, scarcity of treatment centres, egosyntonicity of pathology). Notably, a significant increase in ED clinic waitlists has been observed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening existing treatment gaps. Given that delays in treatment have important clinical correlates (e.g., entrenchment of ED pathology), exploring new methods of mental health service delivery for this population is of critical concern. Mobile app-based motivational interviewing (MI) delivered prior to the start of…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0435262
language: eng
degree discipline: Psychology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Libben, Maya
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85503