This study tests a psychosocial intervention to improve immune health literacy and behaviors among adults with mental illnesses.
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
100
In addition to routine mental health care, subjects receive an intervention to improve their immune health literacy and self-management behaviors.
University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
RECRUITINGChange in Immune Status
The Immune Status Questionnaire (ISQ) measures self-reported immune status. The questionnaire consists of 7 items measuring indicators of immune health including headache, muscle and joint pain, cough, and sudden high fever. Respondents rate each item using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "never" to "always or almost always." Responses are coded 0-4 and summed for a total score potentially ranging from 0 to 28 with higher scores indicating a poorer immune status.
Time frame: study entry (pre-intervention), immediate post-intervention, 3 months post-intervention
Change in Perceived Competence for Health Management
The Perceived Competence for Health Management scale measures participants' feelings of competence about their ability to manage their immune health. This 4-item scale uses a 7-point Likert response format ranging from "not at all true" to "very true." The minimum value is 4 and the maximum is 28, with higher scores indicating a better outcome.
Time frame: study entry (pre-intervention), immediate post-intervention, 3 months post-intervention
Change in Coping Mastery
Change in subjects' sense of personal control over important life outcomes is assessed via 7 items of the Coping Mastery Scale rated along a 4-point Likert scale from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." Higher values equal better coping mastery. Minimum=2 and maximum=49.
Time frame: study entry (pre-intervention), immediate post-intervention, 3 months post-intervention
Change in Health Promoting Lifestyle
The ability to engage in health promoting behaviors and practices is assessed via self-report on a 26-item Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II scale that yields a total score and 3 subscales measuring nutrition, physical activity, and emotional and spiritual wellness.
Time frame: study entry (pre-intervention), immediate post-intervention, 3 months post-intervention
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