Clinical trial · Observational
The Living With a Long-Term Condition Study
Testing the Reliability and Validity of a New Measure for Illness-related Distress.
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Psychological distress (anxiety and depression) is common in and experienced differently by people living with long-term health conditions (LTCs). Being able to measure whether psychological distress is related to living with a LTC would allow researchers and clinicians to provide interventions specifically tailored to the challenges of living with a LTC and therefore provide the most appropriate support for these patients. Such a measure would also be useful in research to identify the presence of illness-related distress in different patient groups. This project will therefore create a new measure of illness-related distress that has applications for both research and clinical practice. This will involve the psychometric validation of the new illness-related distress measure to test how valid and reliable the measure is. The aim of the project is to provide initial validation of the Illness Related Distress Scale in a community sample, recruited through online platforms. The objective of the study is to gather initial validity and reliability data for the scale.
Conditions
Conditions (45)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Arthritis | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Asthma | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Atrial Fibrillation | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Celiac Disease | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Cerebrovascular Disorders | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| CKD | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Copd | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Cystic Fibrosis | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living with LTC Questionnaire | Diagnostic Test | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- Participants
- description
- Participants will answer two short questionnaires, 1 week apart.
- interventionNames
- Diagnostic Test: Living with LTC Questionnaire
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Illness-related distress
- timeFrame
- Week 0 and Week 1
- description
- 31 item questionnaire developed by the research team designed to assess illness-related distresss.
Secondary outcomes (6)
- measure
- Depression
- timeFrame
- Week 0
- description
- Eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire - 8 (PHQ-8) Minimum=0, maximum=24, with higher scores indicating greater depression.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Over the age of 18 * Self-reported diagnosis of a Long-Term Condition * UK resident * Possession of an email address to enable all study procedures * Sufficient command of written and spoken English to understand study procedures Exclusion Criteria: * Under the age of 18 * Not living in the UK * No self-reported diagnosis of an LTC * Inability to complete questionnaires in English
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