Finding Emotional Empowerment and Lifelong Strength for Trauma and Substance Use
This study is testing a 12-week group program called "Finding Emotional Empowerment and Lifelong Strength" (FEELS). The program aims to improve your understanding and beliefs about mental health, especially concerning trauma and substance use. Researchers want to see if this program can help young Black adults, aged 18 to 35, who have experienced trauma. The study will measure changes in your mental health understanding, attitudes towards mental health problems, and your intention to seek mental health help over three months. The current status of this study is unclear, and it plans to enroll 80 participants.
- Study design
- This is an interventional study with a planned enrollment of 80 participants. It will use a single-arm pilot design, meaning all participants will receive the intervention.
- What's involved
- You would participate in 12 weeks of educational group sessions and complete assessments at the beginning, middle, and end of the program.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for three months after the intervention to measure changes in mental health literacy and related beliefs.
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Finding Emotional Empowerment and Lifelong Strength
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
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What this trial measures
- Change in scores on the Multicomponent Mental Health Literacy Measure (MMHLM)3-months
Assesses knowledge and beliefs about mental health disorders, including symptoms, causes, prevention and treatment strategies. Total scores range from 22 to 110, with higher scores indicating greater MHL.
- Change in scores on the Short Attitudes Towards Mental Health Problems Scale (SATMHPS)3-months
Measures personal, family, and community attitudes and stigma related to mental health challenges. Mean scores for subscales range from 0 to 3, with higher scores indicating more negative attitudes.
- Change in scores on the Mental Help Seeking Intention Scale (MHSIS)3-months
Measures intentions to seek help from a mental health professional in the event of a mental health concern. Mean scores range from from 1 to 7, with higher scores indicating stronger intentions.
- Change in scores on the Self-Efficacy in Seeking Mental Health Care (SE-SMHC)3-months
Assesses perceived ability to seek professional mental health care. Total scores range from 9 to 90, while subscale scores range from 5 to 50 (SE-KNOW) and 4 to 40 (SE-COPE).
- Participant engagement as assessed by rates of participant recruitment and proportion of eligible participants who are enrolled in the study3-months
- Participant satisfaction at mid- and post-intervention (quantitative)3-months
Mean scores (ranging from 1 to 5) on ten Likert items assessing length of the program, pace of learning and discussing material, group format, meeting time and location, group facilitator, and program materials (i.e., amount of information given, clarity of the information given, ability to understand information, ability to apply material in real life). One additional item will ask how participants would rate the helpfulness of the FEELS intervention (1 = very unhelpful to 5 = very helpful).
- Participant satisfaction at post-intervention (qualitative)3-months
Three survey questions will ask participants for feedback on the intervention (facilitators for participation, topics to include in the future, and suggestions for improvement). Post-intervention focus groups will also elicit qualitative appraisals (on intervention length, pace, and modality; ease of reading, understanding, and applying the content; and suggestions for improvement) from a smaller group of intervention participants.
- Participant retention and attendance at sessions3-months
Mean number of intervention sessions attended per participant and proportion of participants who complete the full intervention