NCT05544344

Healthy ReStart Intervention to Improve Health and Functioning

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study tests an intervention that uses health coaching, motivational interviewing, positive psychology, and online wellness tools to help adults with mental illness return to active lives after major disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Detailed description

This study is testing the efficacy of a brief intervention delivered to adults with mental illness by trained health coaches, designed to help recipients engage in health and mental health self-management, while setting goals to return to an active life after major disruptions such as a pandemic. 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 and 6 months later. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) models are used to assess the primary outcome of changes in mental and physical health, functioning, perceived competence for life self-management, and mental health recovery. Also examined are study condition differences in self-advocacy skills, access to services, and disruptions from COVID-19. Hypothesis 1: Compared to services as usual (SAU), intervention recipients will report better health, well-being, and service use. Hypothesis 2: Compared to SAU, intervention recipients will have more perceived competence and self-advocacy. Hypothesis 3: Healthy ReStart recipients will report high levels of satisfaction with the intervention.

Conditions

• Mental Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy ReStart	In addition to receiving mental health services as usual, subjects receive services from health coaches over a four-month period to assist them in creating a Restart plan and attaining related life goals.
OTHER	Services as Usual	Subjects receive mental health services as usual.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-30
• Completion: 2026-06-30
• First posted: 2022-09-16
• Last updated: 2025-09-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States