The main LEAP is comprised of 27 service users and carers. It has offered feedback on topic guides for focus groups and also questions for the systematic review (protocol).
The LEAP Intervention Development Group (IDG) is a sub- group of the main LEAP and last met at the end of September. The IDG is comprised of 8 service users and carers. It has recently offered feedback on:
- Enablers and barriers to the intervention (a service in primary care run by GPs and nurses for people with mental health problems at risk of cardiovascular disease, CVD).
- Insights drawn from lived experience of mental illness on what the intervention/ service should look like and do in order to help people with mental health problems.
- The IDG made comments on the ways in which the intervention/ service should be tailored for people, so as to be targeted to their health needs and making it more acceptable to service users. This will make the service more acceptable and personalised, perhaps increasing uptake so people attend appointments, and ensure that the service is relevant to people's individual needs.
- The IDG has also offered feedback on preliminary themes from focus groups with service users and carers.
- The LEAP IDG has drafted some recommendations to be considered by the PRIMROSE project. For example, there was a positive response in the group to the fact that the intervention appears to be proposing not just medication (statins) but also small one step at a time goals for people to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease. This makes behaviour change (diet, exercise, smoking) more realistic, achievable and person- centred by people’s choice. In addition, the IDG proposed that service users and carers should be involved in some aspects of the training of nurses.
