NCT00520728

Efficacy of an Occupational Time Use Intervention for People With Serious Mental Illness

Efficacy of an Occupational Time Use Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Queen's University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a new Occupational Time Use Intervention designed to increase activity participation and improve meaning in the lives of people with serious mental illness living in the community.

Detailed description

5 Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Teams from Kingston (n=2), Belleville (n=1), and Ottawa (n=2) will be involved in a 12 week randomized controlled trial of our Time Use Intervention. 20 subjects (4 subjects from each team) will participate in this pilot study and will be treated individually by their ACT team Occupational Therapist (1 OT per ACT Team). This pilot test will help to determine the clinical utility and efficacy of our treatment protocol. Comparison: Standard ACT treatment with the Occupational Time Use Intervention vs. Standard ACT treatment

Conditions

• Serious Mental Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Occupational Time Use Intervention	12 week behavioral intervention administered by Occupational Therapists.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-08-01
• Primary completion: 2008-05-01
• Completion: 2008-06-01
• First posted: 2007-08-24
• Last updated: 2015-09-02