Efficacy of an Occupational Time Use Intervention for People With Serious Mental Illness

NCT ID: NCT00520728

Last Updated: 2015-09-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE1
• Total Enrollment: 18 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2008-06-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a new Occupational Time Use Intervention designed to increase activity participation and improve meaning in the lives of people with serious mental illness living in the community.

Detailed Description

5 Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams from Kingston (n=2), Belleville (n=1), and Ottawa (n=2) will be involved in a 12 week randomized controlled trial of our Time Use Intervention. 20 subjects (4 subjects from each team) will participate in this pilot study and will be treated individually by their ACT team Occupational Therapist (1 OT per ACT Team). This pilot test will help to determine the clinical utility and efficacy of our treatment protocol.

Comparison: Standard ACT treatment with the Occupational Time Use Intervention vs. Standard ACT treatment

Conditions

Serious Mental Illness

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

A

Experimental arm receives 12 week intervention along with standard care.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Occupational Time Use Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

12 week behavioral intervention administered by Occupational Therapists.

Interventions

Occupational Time Use Intervention

12 week behavioral intervention administered by Occupational Therapists.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adults (18-65 years of age);
• Primary diagnosis of a severe psychiatric disorder with a psychotic feature;
• Team and self-perceived occupational disengagement (low activity levels);
• Fluent in English;
• Living in a community setting and receiving ACT treatment;
• Own legal guardian (thus competent to give consent to participate), and are willing to give written informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Unstable mental health;
• Lack of interest in a time use intervention;
• Satisfied with current time use and occupations;
• ACT Team Occupational Therapist is subject's main Case Manager.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Queen's University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Megan Edgelow

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Megan M Edgelow, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Queen's University

Terry Krupa, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Queen's University

Other Identifiers

OTUI1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id