Evaluation of the Building Healthy Life Skills Program

NCT ID: NCT05611060

Last Updated: 2022-11-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: PHASE2
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-10-10
• Study Completion Date: 2023-07-31

Brief Summary

The goal of this intervention trial is to learn test whether participation in the Building Health Life Skills Program leads to improvements in psychological well-being and stress management skills for people who are experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Will participation in the Building Healthy Life Skills Program lead to better skills in managing negative emotions?
• Will participation in the Building Healthy Life Skills Program lead to improvements in psychological well-being, sleep quality, and health-related quality of life?

Participants will be asked to complete three surveys: one prior to the first session of the program, one at the end of the program, and one three months later. The surveys include measures of skills for managing negative emotions, mood states, sleep quality, health-related quality of life, illness experiences, and history of childhood adversity.

Detailed Description

Community members who are experiencing homelessness and receiving support services from the Merced County Navigation Center and who have enrolled in the center's Building Healthy Life Skills Program will be invited to participate in this intervention evaluation study. The Building Healthy Life Skills program is a 10-week program designed to provide participants with an understanding of how abuse, neglect and household dysfunctions during childhood affect emotional, social, and cognitive well-being; and to provide training in emotion regulation skills, including adaptive emotional processing and expression, mindfulness, and cognitive reappraisal. The sessions are two hours in duration and conducted in classroom style. Open enrollment will be conducted four times a year, serving approximately 60 individuals.

Conditions

Adverse Childhood Experiences; Housing Problems; Emotion Regulation

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Interventions

Building Healthy Life Skills Program

The intervention provides education and training in the long-term mental and physical health consequences of childhood adversity and emotion regulation skills.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Individuals who are receiving support services from the Merced County Navigation Center due their current experiences of housing insecurity or homelessness, and
• have enrolled in the Building Healthy Life Skills program

Exclusion Criteria

• Individuals under the age of 18 years and those who cannot speak English or Spanish

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of California, Merced

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Linda Diane Cameron

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of California Merced

Merced, California, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Linda D Cameron, Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

lcameron@ucmerced.edu

209-626-6892

Marisela Yepez, B.S.

Role: CONTACT

myepez5@ucmerced.edu

209-228-2252

Facility Contacts

Linda D Cameron, Ph.D.

Role: primary

lcameron@ucmerced.edu

209-626-6892

Marisela Yepez, B.A.

Role: backup

myepez5@ucmerced.edu

Other Identifiers

Cameron2022

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id