The PI developed the Image Narrative Intervention (INI) based on the research using visual images in which visual images and narratives were found to support trauma survivors in narrating their experiences and in meaning making. The proposed study is the first study to test the therapeutic effect of the INI program. The investigators propose to assess, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the feasibility and preliminary effect of the INI through a pilot randomized control trial (RCT) design with a wait list control.
AIM 1. To understand the unique experiences of emerging adult college students during the Covid-19 pandemic (especially around the themes of the self, relationships with others, and the future). AIM 2. To evaluate the feasibility of the INI for emerging adult college students during the Covid-19 pandemic, both quantitatively and qualitatively. AIM 3. To evaluate the preliminary efficacy of the INI on distress, PTG, Quality of Life and Meaning-Making.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
Each participant will take part in a 5-week program of weekly 1-hour telehealth sessions with the PI or a social work PhD student facilitator trained in the INI by the PI.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
DASS (Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale) 21
measuring distress, 0-63, higher is worse
Time frame: change through study completion, an average of 3 months
PTGI (posttraumatic growth index)
measuring posttraumatic growth, 0-105, higher is better
Time frame: change through study completion, an average of 3 months
WHOQOL (WHO quality of life)-bref
measuring quality of life, 0-100, higher is better
Time frame: change through study completion, an average of 3 months
MLQ (meaning in life)
measuring meaning making, 0-70, higher is better
Time frame: change through study completion, an average of 3 months
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