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Purrble With LGBTQ+ Youth Who Have Self-harmful Thoughts

NCT06025942 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 155

Last updated 2025-03-04

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Summary

The primary aim of the proposed Randomised Control study is to investigate the effects of a socially assisted robot (i.e. Purrble) on emotional regulation difficulties (measured by DERS8) with young LGBTQ+ people who have self-harmful (with or without suicidal intention) (in comparison to a wait-listed control).

Secondary aims include investigating the effects of the Purrble on young people's self-harmful thoughts, symptoms of anxiety and depression, alongside quantitative and qualitative (interviews) measures of engagement with the intervention.

Conditions

  • Emotion Regulation
  • Self Harm

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Purrble intervention

When the Purrble is picked up, it emits a frantic heartbeat that slows down if the person uses calm stroking movements. If the Purrble is soothed for long enough, it transitions into a purring vibration indicating a calm, content state. Logic model underlying the intervention: Level 1: in-the-moment soothing support to young people in emotional moments when they would attempt to utilise emotion regulation (ER) strategies to calm down. Level 2: mechanisms that facilitate long-term engagement with the intervention, building on positive subjective experience of Level 1. Level 3: shift in young peoples' ER practices and implicit beliefs about emotion, after repeated experience of Levels 1-2. * see JMIR Res Protoc 2021;10(11):e28914 (doi: 10.2196/28914)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oxford

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Nottingham

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Glasgow

    collaborator OTHER

  • Stanford University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Melbourne

    collaborator OTHER

  • King's College London

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-11
Primary Completion
2024-10-23
Completion
2025-03-01

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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