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A Novel Social Emotional Learning Curriculum for Youth With Epilepsy

NCT06427967 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 33

Last updated 2025-08-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Youth with epilepsy (YWE) are significantly more likely than their peers without epilepsy to experience isolation, interpersonal victimization, and low relationship satisfaction. This is a serious health concern. Poor social support, real or perceived, is consistently correlated to worsened outcomes in every domain of health-related quality of life. As YWE are two to five times more likely than their peers without epilepsy to develop a mental health condition, poor social support is likely a bidirectional risk factor.

Currently, there are no best practices or recommendations for clinicians or other youth-serving professionals to reference when it comes to improving the perceived social support of YWE specifically.

The research team has drawn from multiple fields of scientific knowledge to develop a novel intervention that aims to provide YWE with knowledge, skills, connections, and positive emotional support that can help them to bolster their support system at every level of the social ecological model (SEM). The proposed study is a pilot of this intervention to test its acceptability and appropriateness according to YWE participants ages 12 to 26. The intervention's impact on participants social-emotional learning skills and the feasibility of expanding the study protocol for use in a large, multisite randomized control trial will also be explored.

The goal of this research study is to help evaluate a new program for young people diagnosed with epilepsy that will build up young people's social opportunities, interpersonal skills, and sources of emotional support. The investigators want to research the impact of this program. From this study, the investigators hope to learn what the program does well, and in what ways it could be improved from the perspective of YWE.

Conditions

  • Epilepsy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Project Dream Team

Five total sessions, 60-minutes each, with one session every 7 days (+/- 21 days between sessions), Session activities include discussion prompts, interactive learning methods, skill rehearsals, mindfulness / somatic exercises and lecture slides facilitated by a trained facilitator.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Charles H. Hood Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Boston Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laurie Douglass, MD · Boston Medical Center, Department of Neurology

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
26 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-16
Primary Completion
2025-07-30
Completion
2025-07-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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