Enhancing Immune Health Randomized Controlled Trial
Purpose
This study tests a psychosocial intervention to improve immune health literacy and behaviors among adults with mental illnesses.
Condition
- Mental Disorder
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Over 18 Years
- Eligible Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- Age 18 and older - Serious mental illness - Membership in a collaborating community mental health agency - Access to the Internet - Able to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- Cognitive impairment preventing informed consent - Unable to communicate in English
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Intervention Model Description
- The intervention improves health literacy and self-management skills using a framework comprised of the psychoeducational strategies of explanation, evaluation, and engagement. Over the course of 5 structured sessions, instructors impart immune health information using visual aids. They evaluate what participants already know about immune health to assess how to expand participants' understanding of immunity and health self-management. Instructors engage participants in personally-meaningful activities and goals to improve their immune health literacy and behaviors. For 3 months after class ends, monthly booster sessions are held.
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
- Masking Description
- Research interviewers are blinded to study condition.
Arm Groups
| Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
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Experimental Experimental: Intervention |
Subjects receive a brief intervention to improve their immune health literacy and self-management skills. |
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Active Comparator Services as Usual |
Subjects receive routine mental health care. |
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Recruiting Locations
Chicago 4887398, Illinois 4896861 60612
More Details
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Detailed Description
This study is testing the efficacy of a brief intervention designed to improve immune health literacy and behaviors among adults with mental illnesses. This psychoeducational intervention supports lifestyle changes, including promotion of immunity-enhancing nutrition and immunity aids, activated intentions to receive needed inoculations and annual health screenings, better sleep, and more effective stress management. Adult clients of collaborating community mental health agencies are randomly assigned to the intervention plus services as usual, versus services as usual alone. They are assessed at baseline, two months post-baseline, and three months later. Multivariable analysis models are used to assess the primary outcome of self-reported immune status.