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Table 1 Core components of each group

From: Mood, Activity Participation, and Leisure Engagement Satisfaction (MAPLES): a randomised controlled pilot feasibility trial for low mood in acquired brain injury

Activity planning group

Activity engagement group

Waitlist control group

• Activity scheduling and monitoring

• Participant autonomy

• No contact with research team during wait

• Identifying avoidance patterns

• Direct experience of selected activity

• No in-depth information about either study group

• Problem-solving barriers to activation

• Focus on social engagement

• Not actively discouraged from continuing other forms of care

• Step-by-step activity planning

• Non-linear group structure

 

• Enhancing planning through goal management

• No explicit planning of activities

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