Assessing Online Interventions for Men's' Mental Health and Wellbeing

University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Behavioral: Screening for Mental Health & Man Therapy; Behavioral: Screening for Mental Health only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02785471

HP-00066262

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test a comprehensive, male-oriented, online screening and referral (Screening for Mental Health; SMH) and male-oriented online information and referral intervention program (Man Therapy; MT) to improve mental health and wellbeing with a focus on prevention of suicide and help-seeking behaviors among middle-aged men. The online programs will be offered together to maximize the effect on reducing suicide behavior and increasing mental health help-seeking behaviors for men. If successful in decreasing suicide behavior and ideation and increasing suicide help-seeking behavior, this intervention could be scaled up to contribute to a reduction in suicide behaviors and deaths across the country.

Enrollment: 554 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 25 to 64 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. men living in Michigan;
2. 25-64 years of age at time of enrollment;
3. scoring in the moderate- to high-risk range (or answering positively on Question 9) on the Harvard Department of Psychiatry/NDSD Scale (HANDS), scoring in the moderate- to high-risk range for anger on the DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure, or identifying any risk for suicide ideation or behavior on the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Sale (C-SSRS); and
4. fluent in reading English

Exclusion criteria

1. females
2. scoring in the low risk range on the Harvard Department of Psychiatry/NDSD Scale (HANDS), scoring in the low risk range for anger on the DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure, or not identifying any risk for suicide ideation or behavior on the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Sale (C-SSRS); and
3. not fluent in reading English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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554 participants in 2 patient groups

Screening for Mental Health only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in the Screening for Mental Health only (control) group will complete the online depression and suicide screening and receive immediate feedback and referrals.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Screening for Mental Health only

Screening for Mental Health & Man Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to Screening for Mental Health \& Man Therapy (intervention) group will be offered the Man Therapy program in conjunction with Screening for Mental Health.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Screening for Mental Health & Man Therapy