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Testing a New Device to Advance the Use of Social Skills Training With Mental Health Consumers and Clinicians

NCT03053557 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2018-10-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aims to test a new device called the Social Skills Coach that is being created to help mental health consumers with social skills and community functioning. People diagnosed with schizophrenia and clinicians will be included as participants in this study. Mental health consumers (diagnosed with schizophrenia) will be randomly assigned to either test the new device or to participate in a social skills training course. Data will be collected from participants through surveys before participants either use the device or participate the course and afterwards. Individual interviews will be conducted with a sub sample of mental health consumers and clinicians. The study looks to test the credibility and acceptability of the new device to help mental health consumers and clinicians. it will also influence future research.

Conditions

  • Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social Skills Coach

Social Skills Coach is a multi-platform interactive device that engages users with information and skills learned in social skills training programs. The program includes a web application and provider dashboard and encourages users to practice skills on the app and use them in the real world and then report how the application of skills was experienced.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Maryland

    collaborator OTHER

  • VA Maryland Health Care System

    collaborator FED

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Center for Social Innovation, Massachusetts

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jeff Olivet, MA · Center for Social Innovation

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-02
Primary Completion
2018-08-15
Completion
2018-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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