Clinical trial NCT03291717: Bridging Community Gaps Photovoice
Official title: Randomized Trial of a Peer-led Intervention to Promote Community Living and Participation - The Bridging Community Gaps Photovoice
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Illness
Social Isolation
Keywords: Mental Illness
Community Participation
Stigma
Photovoice
Lead sponsor: Boston University Charles River Campus
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Mental Health Center of Denver
name: Connecticut State, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
name: Riverside Community Care
First posted: 2017-09-25
Enrollment: 197
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to test a peer-led intervention intended to promote the community living and participation of individuals with psychiatric disabilities entitled "Bridging Community Gaps Photovoice" (BCGP). The intervention targets increasing community involvement of individuals with psychiatric disabilities through reduction in self-stigma and perceived stigma, enhancing opportunities for community participation, and support to achieve community participation goals.

Detailed description: The BCGP intervention is 6 months long and the investigators expect that participants will experience lower self and perceived stigma, increased community participation and sense of belonging, and improved psychosocial functioning and personal growth after the intervention. The intervention is comprised of a 12-week class that meets once a week for two hours, followed by three booster sessions - one per month in the three months following the class, and up to 24 sessions of individual support as needed throughout the 6 months provided on a weekly basis either in person or by phone. The purpose of the individual support is to reinforce the class activities and to ensure the participants meets their community participation goal. The proposed study is a randomized trial which will be conducted at Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (BUCPR) in Massachusetts, the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) in Colorado, and the Greater Bridgeport Mental Health Center (GBMHC) in Connecticut.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. are 18 or older.
2. are recipients of services at research sites due to having a DSM-V diagnosis of mental illness, including dual diagnosis (dual diagnosis refers to co-occurring mental illness and alcohol/ substance use disorder).
3. are interested in enhancing their community participation.
4. are not currently receiving individual peer support services.
5. are able to read and write in English.

Exclusion Criteria:

1)Inability to give full and knowing consent.

Primary outcomes:
measure: UCLA Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months to 6 months to 9 months to 12 months
measure: Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Community Participation
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months to 6 months to 9 months to 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months to 6 months to 9 months to 12 months
measure: The Stigma Scale
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months, 3 months to 6 months, 6 months to 9 months, 9 months to 12 months
measure: Approaches to Coping with Anti-Stigma
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months to 6 months to 9 months to 12 months
measure: Personal Growth and Recovery Scale
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months to 6 months to 9 months to 12 months
measure: Community Goal Achievement Scale
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months to 6 months to 9 months to 12 months
measure: Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS - R)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 3 months to 6 months to 9 months to 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Denver
country: United States
facility: Mental Health Center of Denver
state: Colorado
city: Bridgeport
country: United States
facility: Greater Bridgeport Mental Health Center
state: Connecticut
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Boston University, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
state: Massachusetts
city: Wakefield
country: United States
facility: Horizon House- Riverside Community Care
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Boston University
name: Erna S Rogers, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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