Clinical trial NCT05784818: Up To Me: Erasing the Stigma of Mental Illness on College Campuses
Official title: Up To Me: Erasing the Stigma of Mental Illness on College Campuses
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Illness
Behavior Disorders
Severe Mental Illness
Psychiatric Diagnosis
Psychiatric Diseases
Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatric Illness
Keywords: mental illness
disclosure
empowerment
stigma
Lead sponsor: University of South Florida
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
name: Temple University
name: Illinois Institute of Technology
First posted: 2023-03-27
Enrollment: 201
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SEQUENTIAL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This is a three-lesson, disclosure-based stigma reduction program meant to reduce barriers to community living and participation for college students with psychiatric disabilities. The goal is to improve community living and participation of individuals with psychiatric disabilities within their postsecondary community using the Honest Open Proud (HOP) program. There are 3 specific objectives of the project:1) evaluate program fidelity, 2) assess program feasibility, and 3) conduct a randomized controlled trial of the HOP program with college students with mental illness to examine its efficacy. Anticipated outcomes include increases in 1) community integration, 2)self-esteem and self-efficacy, 3) empowerment and self-determination, 4) disclosure of mental illness in order to obtain needed support, and 5) care seeking/service engagement for mental illness. Ultimately, we expect to see increased academic persistence and achievement among HOP program completers.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* College students enrolled at USF
* Over 18 years of age
* Individuals with psychiatric disability(ies) who feel shame regarding their mental illness or keep it secret

Exclusion Criteria:

* Individuals with a sole substance abuse disorder
* Individuals who plan to graduate before the conclusion of the data collection period; for intervention participants, this would be a graduation date within 6 months of starting the intervention.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self-Stigma of Mental Illness Scale-Short Form
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Stigma Stress Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Why Try Stigma Scale (WTSS)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: The Empowerment Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Self-Determination Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
Secondary outcomes:
measure: College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ Fourth Edition)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Peer Group Interactions Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Interactions with Faculty Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Sense of Campus Belonging Scale (SoCB)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (ATSPPHS)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Actual Help Seeking Questionnaire
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Grade Point Average (GPA)
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Academic and Intellectual Development Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Academic Persistence
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Diagnostic and Status Questionnaire
timeFrame: This measure will be collected at week 0 for all participants
measure: Diagnostic and Status Questionnaire Past 4 weeks
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Behavioral Health Measure
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Recovery Assessment Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Quality of Relationships Scale
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
measure: Up To Me Satisfaction Scale
timeFrame: This measure will be collected at week 7 if in the Up To Me Intervention + Booster or Up To Me Intervention + No Booster arms
measure: Demographics Questionnaire
timeFrame: This measure will be collected at week 0 for all participants
measure: Peer Support and Advocacy Items
timeFrame: Change from baseline to week 3, week 7, week 15 and 27 for all participants
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tampa
country: United States
facility: University of South Florida
state: Florida
Study officials:
affiliation: University of South Florida
name: Kristin Kosyluk
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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