Adaptation and Evaluation of the Honest Open Proud Program for Adolescents With Mental Illness
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Secrecy Versus Disclosure Among Adolescents With Mental Illness
- Sponsor
- University of Ulm
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 5
- Primary Endpoint
- Stigma Stress Scale, 8 items (Rüsch, Corrigan, Wassel et al., 2009; Rüsch, Corrigan, Powell et al., 2009)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of the group-based intervention 'Honest Open Proud' among adolescents with mental illness.
Detailed Description
Both due to fear of public stigma and due to self-stigma or shame, people with mental illness may decide to keep their condition a secret or even to withdraw from other people altogether in order to minimise the risk of being labelled. Secrecy can help on the short term to protect individuals from public stigma, but often it has negative long-term consequences such as social isolation, distress and unemployment. Disclosure, on the other hand, carries the risk to be discriminated by others, but can reduce the burden of secrecy, lead to support by others and reduce public stigma. In this study investigators aim to evaluate whether a group program run both by people with mental illness (peers) and professionals helps to reduce self-stigma and makes it easier for adolescents to handle the necessary choices related to secrecy versus disclosure.
Investigators
Nicolas Rüsch
Professor
University of Ulm
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •At least one self-reported current axis I or axis II disorder according to DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), which is not restricted to only substance-related disorder(s)
- •Age 13 to 18
- •Ability to provide written informed consent
- •Fluid in German (needed for self-report measures)
- •At least a moderate level of self-reported disclosure-related distress/difficulty (score 4 or higher on the screening item 'In general, how distressed or worried are you in terms of secrecy or disclosure of your mental illness to others?', rated from 1, not at all, to 7, very much)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Self-reported diagnosis of only a substance- or alcohol-related disorder, without non-substance related current psychiatric comorbidity. We will exclude people who only have a substance-/alcohol-related disorder because the disclosure of these disorders is not the topic of the HOP intervention
- •Intellectual disability
- •Organic disorders
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Stigma Stress Scale, 8 items (Rüsch, Corrigan, Wassel et al., 2009; Rüsch, Corrigan, Powell et al., 2009)
Time Frame: 3 weeks (T1)
Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire KIDSCREEN-10 Index, 10 items (Deighton et al., 2014; Ravens-Sieberer et al., 2010)
Time Frame: 6 weeks (T2)
Secondary Outcomes
- Satisfaction with intervention questionnaire (according to Keller, Konopka, Fegert, & Naumann, 2003; own development)(3 weeks)
- Empowerment Scale, Subscales 'self-esteem' and 'control over the future', 13 items (Rogers, Chamberlin, Ellison, & Crean, 1997)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Attitudes to disclosure, 2 items (Rüsch, Evans-Lacko, Henderson, Flach, & Thornicroft, 2011)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Disclosure Distress, 1 item ("In general, how distressed or worried are you in terms of secrecy or disclosure of your mental illness to others?', from 1, not at all, to 7, very much) (Rüsch et al., 2014a)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Shame about having a mental illness, 1 item ("Do you feel ashamed about having a mental illness?"; from 1, not at all, to 7, very much) (Rüsch et al., 2014b)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- General Help-Seeking Questionnaire, 1 item (Wilson et al., 2005)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), 4-item short version (Yip, Paul S F & Cheung, 2006)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Self-Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (SSMIS), Subscale 'self-concurrence', 5 items (Corrigan et al., 2012; Rüsch et al., 2006)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Self-Identified Stage of Recovery (SISR), 5 items (Andresen, Caputi, & Oades, 2010)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness Inventory (ISMI), 10-item short version (Boyd, Otilingam, & Deforge, 2014)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)
- Social withdrawal and secrecy, 12 item-short version (Link et al., 2009)(baseline, 3 and 6 weeks)