Image Narrative With College Students

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression, Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Image Narrative

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04759313

imagenarrative

Details and patient eligibility

About

The PI developed the Image Narrative Intervention (INI) based on the research using visual images in which visual images and narratives were found to support trauma survivors in narrating their experiences and in meaning making. The proposed study is the first study to test the therapeutic effect of the INI program. The investigators propose to assess, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the feasibility and preliminary effect of the INI through a pilot randomized control trial (RCT) design with a wait list control.

Full description

AIM 1. To understand the unique experiences of emerging adult college students during the Covid-19 pandemic (especially around the themes of the self, relationships with others, and the future).

AIM 2. To evaluate the feasibility of the INI for emerging adult college students during the Covid-19 pandemic, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

AIM 3. To evaluate the preliminary efficacy of the INI on distress, PTG, Quality of Life and Meaning-Making.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-29 in age
• college students at the University of Utah
• reporting moderate or higher levels of distress in DASS21

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Imagenarrative treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

INI Sessions: Each participant will take part in a 5-week program of weekly 1-hour telehealth sessions with the PI or a social work PhD student facilitator trained in the INI by the PI.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Image Narrative

Wait List Control Group

Experimental group

Description:

In weeks 6 through 10, the same program will be delivered to the wait list control group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Image Narrative