A Phase 2 interventional study of Building Healthy Life Skills Program in Adverse Childhood Experiences, Housing Problems and Emotion Regulation, sponsored by University of California, Merced. Status unknown at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-11-09.
Sponsored by University of California, Merced · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this intervention trial is to learn test whether participation in the Building Health Life Skills Program leads to improvements in psychological well-being and stress management skills for people who are experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Participants will be asked to complete three surveys: one prior to the first session of the program, one at the end of the program, and one three months later. The surveys include measures of skills for managing negative emotions, mood states, sleep quality, health-related quality of life, illness experiences, and history of childhood adversity.
Community members who are experiencing homelessness and receiving support services from the Merced County Navigation Center and who have enrolled in the center's Building Healthy Life Skills Program will be invited to participate in this intervention evaluation study. The Building Healthy Life Skills program is a 10-week program designed to provide participants with an understanding of how abuse, neglect and household dysfunctions during childhood affect emotional, social, and cognitive well-being; and to provide training in emotion regulation skills, including adaptive emotional processing and expression, mindfulness, and cognitive reappraisal. The sessions are two hours in duration and conducted in classroom style. Open enrollment will be conducted four times a year, serving approximately 60 individuals.
University of California, Merced is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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The intervention provides education and training in the long-term mental and physical health consequences of childhood adversity and emotion regulation skills.
Change in health-related quality of life as assessed by the SF-12, for which scores range from 0 to 100 with higher scores reflecting better quality of life
Health-related quality of life as assessed by the SF 12
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in depressive symptoms as assessed by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression measure, for which averaged rating scores range from 0 to 3 with higher scores reflecting more depressive symptoms
Scores on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression measure
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in stress as assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale, for which averaged rating scores range from 1 to 5 with higher scores reflecting greater stress
Scores on the Perceived Stress Scale
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in rumination as an emotion regulation behavior as assessed by the Rumination and Reflections Questionnaire,for which averaged rating scores range from 1 to t with higher scores reflecting more rumination
Scores on the Rumination and Reflections Questionnaire
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in emotional suppression as assessed by the Cortauld Emotional Control Scale (scores range is 1-4, higher scores reflect higher suppression) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (scores range is 1-5, higher scores reflect higher suppression)
Scores on the Cortauld Emotional Control Scale and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in mindfulness as an emotional regulation tendency as assessed by the Mindful Awareness Attention Scale, for which averaged rating scores range from 1 to 5 with higher scores reflecting greater mindfulness tendencies
Scores on the Mindful Awareness Attention Scale
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in cognitive reappraisal as an emotion regulation strategy as assessed by the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, for which averaged rating scores range from 1 to 5 with higher scores reflecting higher use of cognitive reappraisal
Scores on the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in general self-efficacy as assessed by the General Self-Efficacy Survey, for which averaged rating scores range from 1 to 5 with higher scores reflecting higher sense of self-efficacy in managing challenging situations
Scores on the General Self-Efficacy Survey
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in resilience as assessed by the Ego Resilience 89, for which averaged rating scores range from 1 to 5 with higher scores reflecting higher resilience in managing challenging situations
Scores on the Ego Resilience 89
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in sleep quality as assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory, for which averaged rating scores range from 0 to 21 with higher scores reflecting poorer sleep quality
Scores on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
Change in physical health as assessed by self-reported number of sick days in the past month (ranging from 0 to 31) and a the frequency of 17 symptoms each rated 1 to 5 and higher averaged rating scores reflecting higher symptom loads
Scores on a symptom checklist and number of sick days
Time frame: Assessed at baseline, immediately following completion of the intervention, and 3 months following intervention completion
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