Media and Mental Health

University of Arizona70 enrolled

Overview

This study's goal is to find if using the ThinkHumanTV program during 6 weekly sessions of watching Netflix or Disney series or movies for 90 minutes, together with 4 - 8 members of the Whole Health Center and EpiCenter and a discussion leader, improves the wellbeing of the group participants.

This study's goal is to find out whether 6 weekly sessions of watching certain TV series or movies in a group setting, augmented through education from ThinkHuman TV about emotions and coping with emotions embedded in the process of watching (with a discussion leader), will improve the resilience of mental health patients enrolled in a long-term community mental health center. This will be tested by comparing ThinkHuman TV augmented movies with watching moving in a group without ThinkHuman TV educational activities to see if there is better improvement in resilience and well-being of the group participants who have THinkHuman included as compared to those who do not.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Mental and Behavioral Disorders Mental Resilience Emotional Awareness Emotional Development

Interventions

ThinkHumanTVDEVICE

Emotional Education Program

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥ 18years old 2. Recipient of treatment at WHC for at least 6 months. 3. English speaking Exclusion Criteria: 1. Actively manic 2. Actively suicidal 3. Has not been dependent on drugs or alcohol for at least 30 days 4. Deemed to be at significant risk of being dangerous to self or others by the patients' WHC physician 5. Deemed inappropriate based on judgment of WHC physician informed by WHC staff

Locations (1)

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona, United States

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Change from baseline in emotional awareness/intelligence.

Assessed using The Emotional Regulation Questionnaire * Score: Minimum = 0 Maximum = 70 (higher better outcome) Assessed using Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale * Score: Minimum = 32 Maximum = 160 (higher better outcome)

Time frame: 3 month interventional period

Change from baseline in anxiety.

Assessed using The Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) -Score: Minimum = 0 Maximum = 20 (higher worse outcome)

Time frame: 3 month interventional period

Change from baseline in depression symptoms.

Assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CES-D) -Score: Minimum = 0 Maximum = 30 (higher worse outcome)

Time frame: 3 month interventional period

Secondary Outcomes

Change from baseline in quality of life.

Assessed by Q-LES-Q-SF questionnaire -Score: Minimum = 14 Maximum = 70 (higher better outcome)

Time frame: After 3 month interventional period

Central Contacts

Brent Gary

CONTACT

(520) 626-8000 bgary@arizona.edu

Karen Weihs, MD, MD

CONTACT

520-626-8940 weihs@psychiatry.arizona.edu

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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