Honest Open Proud for Adolescents With Mental Illness

NCT ID: NCT02751229

Last Updated: 2017-05-09

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-05-31

Study Completion Date

2017-05-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of the group-based intervention 'Honest Open Proud' among adolescents with mental illness.

Detailed Description

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Both due to fear of public stigma and due to self-stigma or shame, people with mental illness may decide to keep their condition a secret or even to withdraw from other people altogether in order to minimise the risk of being labelled. Secrecy can help on the short term to protect individuals from public stigma, but often it has negative long-term consequences such as social isolation, distress and unemployment. Disclosure, on the other hand, carries the risk to be discriminated by others, but can reduce the burden of secrecy, lead to support by others and reduce public stigma. In this study investigators aim to evaluate whether a group program run both by people with mental illness (peers) and professionals helps to reduce self-stigma and makes it easier for adolescents to handle the necessary choices related to secrecy versus disclosure.

Conditions

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Secrecy Versus Disclosure Among Adolescents With Mental Illness

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Honest Open Proud

The group program is about disclosure ('coming out') versus secrecy of one's mental illness. The groups are facilitated by peers (young adults with mental illness) and mental health professionals. Each group runs for three weeks, one meeting per week, and two hours per meeting.

Fidelity to manual: rated by PhD student in each session as proportion of key topics covered

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Honest Open Proud (HOP)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

five lessons in three modules, two for each two-hour session

1. Considering pros and cons of disclosing:

* hurtful and helpful attitudes about mental illness
* identify beliefs participants hold about themselves
* explore five-step process to challenge their personally hurtful beliefs
* weigh pros and cons of coming out in order to facilitate a decision on whether to disclose
2. Different ways to disclose:

* different levels of (non-) disclosure and how to weigh the cons and pros
* disclosure via social media versus disclosing face to face
* how to find people that are better to disclose to than others and how to 'test them out'
* participants will discuss how others might respond to their disclosure and how that will affect them
3. Telling your story:

* how to tell one's story in a personally meaningful way, how to identify peers who might help with the coming out process, to review how telling one's story felt

Control Group

treatment as usual (TAU)

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Honest Open Proud (HOP)

five lessons in three modules, two for each two-hour session

1. Considering pros and cons of disclosing:

* hurtful and helpful attitudes about mental illness
* identify beliefs participants hold about themselves
* explore five-step process to challenge their personally hurtful beliefs
* weigh pros and cons of coming out in order to facilitate a decision on whether to disclose
2. Different ways to disclose:

* different levels of (non-) disclosure and how to weigh the cons and pros
* disclosure via social media versus disclosing face to face
* how to find people that are better to disclose to than others and how to 'test them out'
* participants will discuss how others might respond to their disclosure and how that will affect them
3. Telling your story:

* how to tell one's story in a personally meaningful way, how to identify peers who might help with the coming out process, to review how telling one's story felt

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Coming Out Proud (COP)

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* At least one self-reported current axis I or axis II disorder according to DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), which is not restricted to only substance-related disorder(s)
* Age 13 to 18
* Ability to provide written informed consent
* Fluid in German (needed for self-report measures)
* At least a moderate level of self-reported disclosure-related distress/difficulty (score 4 or higher on the screening item 'In general, how distressed or worried are you in terms of secrecy or disclosure of your mental illness to others?', rated from 1, not at all, to 7, very much)

Exclusion Criteria

* Self-reported diagnosis of only a substance- or alcohol-related disorder, without non-substance related current psychiatric comorbidity. We will exclude people who only have a substance-/alcohol-related disorder because the disclosure of these disorders is not the topic of the HOP intervention
* Intellectual disability
* Organic disorders
Minimum Eligible Age

13 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Weissenau, Centre for Psychiatry in South-Württemberg, Germany

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Josefinum, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Augsburg, Germany

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Ulm

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Nicolas Rüsch

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Nicolas Rüsch, Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Psychiatry II, Section Public Mental Health, Ulm University, Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg, Germany

Locations

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Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status

Josefinum, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Augsburg, , Germany

Site Status

Department of Psychiatry II, Section Public Mental Health, Ulm University, Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg

Ulm, , Germany

Site Status

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm

Ulm, , Germany

Site Status

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Weissenau, Centre for Psychiatry in South-Württemberg

Weißenau, , Germany

Site Status

Countries

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United States Germany

References

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Other Identifiers

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HOP-Adolescents

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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