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Testing the Competency-based Theory of Change for Suicide Risk Among Young Male Internet Users With Societal Masculinity

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The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Masculinity
Suicidal Ideation
Self-Harm, Deliberate

Treatments

Behavioral: Competency-based physical training (CbM)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04591223
17602620

Details and patient eligibility

About

To propose a competency-based theory of change for reducing suicide risks among male Internet users with salient traits of societal masculinity; To test whether the theory of change using the competency-based model has additional effects on reducing self-harm and/or suicidal ideation in addition to the online social work treatment-as-usual model; To provide online social work service providers with evidence-based measures for reducing the risks of self-harm and/or suicide among young male Internet users.

Full description

This is a randomized waitlist-controlled trial of 60 participants examining the effects of a proposed competency-based model on self-harm relative to those of OSW alone. In the online survey (T0), subjects with self-harm or suicidal ideation will be invited to give informed consent, and then be randomly assigned to one of two groups: 1) OSW (control), or 2) OSW + six weekly sessions of competency-based physical training (intervention). They will be assessed at three measurement time points (T1 = one-month; T2 = three-month; and T3 = five-month from T0 at post-intervention). The intervention group is hypothesized to display a greater reduction in the primary outcomes of self-harm and suicidal ideation than the OSW group. Chi-square tests giving p <=0.05 will indicate a goodness of fit of the linear mixed model, which address random effects in the data and handles intention-to-treat (ITT).

Enrollment

60 estimated patients

Sex

Male

Ages

18 to 39 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Individuals who meet the cut-off of 1.0 on the Chinese Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (ASIQ4); Self-injury incidents in the past 12 months

Exclusion criteria

  • Individuals with severe physical disabilities

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

60 participants in 2 patient groups

TAU + six weekly sessions of competency-based module (CbM)
Experimental group
Description:
This group of participants will be receiving online social work (OSW) treatment as usual (TAU) from NGO service provider as well as a well-designed, one on one structural physical workout module to be offered by a licensed senior physical trainer in public sports ground or gymnasium.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Competency-based physical training (CbM)
TAU
No Intervention group
Description:
This group of participants will be receiving online social work (OSW) treatment as usual (TAU) from NGO service provider.

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Yik Wa Law; Sik-ying Ho

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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