NCT02751229

Honest Open Proud for Adolescents With Mental Illness

Adaptation and Evaluation of the Honest Open Proud Program for Adolescents With Mental Illness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Ulm · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of the group-based intervention 'Honest Open Proud' among adolescents with mental illness.

Detailed description

Both due to fear of public stigma and due to self-stigma or shame, people with mental illness may decide to keep their condition a secret or even to withdraw from other people altogether in order to minimise the risk of being labelled. Secrecy can help on the short term to protect individuals from public stigma, but often it has negative long-term consequences such as social isolation, distress and unemployment. Disclosure, on the other hand, carries the risk to be discriminated by others, but can reduce the burden of secrecy, lead to support by others and reduce public stigma. In this study investigators aim to evaluate whether a group program run both by people with mental illness (peers) and professionals helps to reduce self-stigma and makes it easier for adolescents to handle the necessary choices related to secrecy versus disclosure.

Conditions

• Secrecy Versus Disclosure Among Adolescents With Mental Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Honest Open Proud (HOP)	five lessons in three modules, two for each two-hour session 1. Considering pros and cons of disclosing: * hurtful and helpful attitudes about mental illness * identify beliefs participants hold about themselves * explore five-step process to challenge their personally hurtful beliefs * weigh pros and cons of coming out in order to facilitate a decision on whether to disclose 2. Different ways to disclose: * different levels of (non-) disclosure and how to weigh the cons and pros * disclosure via social media versus disclosing face to face * how to find people that are better to disclose to than others and how to 'test them out' * participants will discuss how others might respond to their disclosure and how that will affect them 3. Telling your story: * how to tell one's story in a personally meaningful way, how to identify peers who might help with the coming out process, to review how telling one's story felt

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-05-01
• Completion: 2017-05-01
• First posted: 2016-04-26
• Last updated: 2017-05-09

Locations

5 sites across 2 countries: United States, Germany