{"id":1889,"date":"2026-07-28T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/?page_id=1889"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:41:41","slug":"learning-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/themes\/learning-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Co-Maid Research Study<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Reducing Anxiety for People with Learning Disabilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are looking for adults with mild to moderate learning disabilities who experience anxiety to take part in a research study called\u00a0<strong>Co-MAID<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Co-MAID is a new talking therapy that has been developed with people with learning disabilities, family members and health professionals. The therapy uses mental imagery \u2013 the pictures we have in our minds \u2013 to help people manage anxiety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The study aims to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop a training package for therapists delivering Co-MAID.<\/li>\n<li>Find out whether Co-MAID can be delivered successfully within the NHS.<\/li>\n<li>Explore whether a larger study should be carried out in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/learning-disability-service\/research\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">Learn more about this study<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Maid Research Study Reducing Anxiety for People with Learning Disabilities We are looking for adults with mild to moderate learning disabilities who experience anxiety to take part in a research study called\u00a0Co-MAID. Co-MAID is a new talking therapy that has been developed with people with learning disabilities, family members and health professionals. The therapy uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-subtheme.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1889","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1889\/revisions\/1892"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}