Testing a New Device to Advance the Use of Social Skills Training With Mental Health Consumers and Clinicians

NCT03053557 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: Social Skills Coach1R43MH113424-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 37
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to test a new device called the Social Skills Coach that is being created to help mental health consumers with social skills and community functioning. People diagnosed with schizophrenia and clinicians will be included as participants in this study. Mental health consumers (diagnosed with schizophrenia) will be randomly assigned to either test the new device or to participate in a social skills training course. Data will be collected from participants through surveys before participants either use the device or participate the course and afterwards. Individual interviews will be conducted with a sub sample of mental health consumers and clinicians. The study looks to test the credibility and acceptability of the new device to help mental health consumers and clinicians. it will also influence future research.

Conditions

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Keywords

mental health consumers

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Feasibility: 90% recruitment, 75% data completed, 80% technical problems solved

  Study Process: Recruitment, Retention, Troubleshooting

  4 weeks post intervention

• Credibility: Mean greater than 6 on Expectancy Rating Scale

  Expectancy Rating Scale collected from client participants

  4 weeks post intervention

• Acceptability: 80% of participants engage at least once; 50% of group attendees enter personalized goals; 50% of participants enter an evaluation goal

  Web diagnostics and through Qualitative interviews with client participants and SST trainer participants

  4 weeks post intervention

Study Arms (2)

Social Skills Coach

EXPERIMENTAL

The Social Skills Coach arm of the study will be provided access, instruction, and support for using the newly developed multi-platform device to address social impairments among individuals with schizophrenia, based on the evidence-based Social Skills Training (SST) intervention.

Behavioral: Social Skills Coach

Social Skills Training course

NO INTERVENTION

Social Skills Training classes are widely available and regularly used in the study setting. As such, this group will serve as a treatment as usual control group.

Interventions

Social Skills Coach BEHAVIORAL

Social Skills Coach is a multi-platform interactive device that engages users with information and skills learned in social skills training programs. The program includes a web application and provider dashboard and encourages users to practice skills on the app and use them in the real world and then report how the application of skills was experienced.

Social Skills Coach

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 21 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Chart diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorder, ability to provide consent, and independent living in the community.
• We will obtain written informed consent, and the consent procedure will include an evaluation of capacity to provide consent

You may not qualify if:

• Under age 21 or not able to provide consent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Center for Social Innovation, Massachusetts: lead
• University of Maryland: collaborator
• VA Maryland Health Care System: collaborator
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Center for Social Innovation

Needham, Massachusetts, 02494, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Jeff Olivet, MA

  Center for Social Innovation

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Research assistants who conduct assessments with participants will be blinded as to whether participants have been assigned to the intervention or control group.
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Convergent parallel mixed methods

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 9, 2017
• First Posted: February 15, 2017
• Study Start: January 2, 2018
• Primary Completion: August 15, 2018
• Study Completion: September 30, 2018
• Last Updated: October 9, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)