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Psychotic DisordersNCT02360566

Participatory Video as a Recovery-Oriented Intervention in Early Psychosis

A study testing Participatory Video Intervention for Early Psychosis in people with Psychotic Disorders and Schizophrenia, run by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Prior research has shown that people with psychotic illnesses, like schizophrenia, who make sense of and meaningfully integrate their psychotic experiences into their life story are more likely to recover from their illness. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 16 to 25 years
Conditions the study is for
Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia
What is being tested?
Participatory Video Intervention for Early Psychosis
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
10 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
Jan 2016to Dec 2016
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 16 to 25 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Participants will be current outpatients of the Prevention and Early intervention Program for Psychoses (PEPP) at LHSC.
  • PEPP only accepts patients with a first onset primary psychotic illness that have not been treated with an antipsychotic for longer than one month.
  • Study participants must be within their first 3 years of being accepted into PEPP.
  • Participants must be fluent in English, as determined by referring clinicians or researchers (in the case of advertisement referred participants) in order to meaningfully participate in the PV intervention and complete the assessment tools.

Who cannot join

  • Potential participants that show high levels of disorganized or disruptive behaviour (as determined by a cut off score of 4 or 5 on the Positive Formal
  • Thought Disorder or Bizarre Behaviour items of the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms [SAPS]) such that they will not be able to meaningfully participate in the MAC intervention will be excluded from the study.
  • Participants must not be simultaneously participating in any other research projects involving active interventions at PEPP.

About this study

Official title: The Novel Use of Participatory Video as a Recovery-Oriented Intervention in Early Psychosis: A Pilot Study

Prior research has shown that people with psychotic illnesses, like schizophrenia, who make sense of and meaningfully integrate their psychotic experiences into their life story are more likely to recover from their illness. This process of developing a coherent narrative seems especially relevant for young people who are experiencing their first episode of psychosis. There is a need for interventions that can help facilitate the formation of recovery-oriented narratives, particularly in the early stage of illness. Participatory video is a group process that involves the facilitated creation of short documentary-style videos in which individuals are supported to reflect on and tell their personal stories. Although it has been used to foster self-identity, self-empowerment and "give voice" to a variety of marginalized and stigmatized populations, its use and evaluation as a clinical intervention has been limited.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the novel use of participatory video facilitate narrative development and promote recovery for individuals with early psychosis is an effective, feasible, and acceptable means of treating youth in the early stages of psychotic illnesses. Although the current study is hypothesis generating in nature, the investigators are expecting that participating in the Participatory Video intervention will result in improvements in narrative development, symptoms, self-perceived recovery, self-esteem, self-stigma, social functioning and hope. Additionally, the investigators expect that Participatory Video intervention will prove to be acceptable to participants and a feasible intervention for early psychotic disorders.

Read the detailed description

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a novel 12-session Participatory Video intervention, is an effective, feasible, and acceptable means of treating people in the early stages of psychotic illnesses.

We intend to randomly assign 20 patients being treated for psychotic illnesses in an early intervention program to a Participatory Video intervention group or treatment as usual group (control). Participants who are randomly assigned to the Participatory Video intervention will take part in 12 expert-facilitated group-based workshops over a period of 6 months, in which they will learn how to develop, film and produce a documentary-style video of their experiences with psychosis. At the end of the 12 workshops participants will have worked together to produce a group documentary video about their experiences with psychosis and, should they wish, individual videos about their own personal experiences with psychosis. Participants in the Participatory Video intervention group will receive the intervention in addition to any treatment they would usually receive through the early psychosis program. Those assigned to the treatment as usual group will continue to receive the standard care available to them in the early psychosis program.

Participants will be evaluated at baseline, at 6-months (immediately post-intervention) and at 9 months (3 months post-intervention) on a number measures. Participatory Video intervention acceptability will be assessed through the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire and qualitative interviews, feasibility will be assessed through recruitment, consent and completion rates, and efficacy will be assessed on measures of symptoms, functioning, subjective recovery, metacognitive capacity and narrative development.

Being tested
Participatory Video Intervention for Early Psychosis
Keywords
Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Participatory Video, Narrative
Medical subject headings
Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia, Narration

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Participatory Video Intervention for Early PsychosisBehavioural

    The Participatory Video intervention consists of 12 semi-structured, 2 hour group workshops over the course of a 6-month time period. Through facilitated discussion, participants will learn how to effectively work collaboratively as a member of the video production team. Together, they will choose what story of their shared experience with psychosis they would like to tell through documentary-video and how they plan to share it. Participants will be trained to operate all equipment required to bring their vision to life. Individuals will also have the opportunity, during the Participatory Video process, to create and share their own video clips, independent of the group, allowing participants to share their own video-narrative with others (friends, family members, public) as a means of engaging in dialogue around their personal experience with psychosis.

Study groups in NCT02360566
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Participatory Video Intervention GroupExperimentalThe Participatory Video intervention consists of 12 semi-structured, 2 hour group workshops over the course of a 6-month time period. Through facilitated discussion, participants will learn how to effectively work collaboratively as a member of the video production team. Together, they will choose what story of their shared experience with psychosis they would like to tell through documentary-video and how they plan to share it. Participants will be trained to operate all equipment required to bring their vision to life. Individuals will also have the opportunity, during the Participatory Video process, to create and share their own video clips, independent of the group, allowing participants to share their own video-narrative with others (friends, family members, public) as a means of engaging in dialogue around their personal experience with psychosis.
Receives: Behavioral: Participatory Video Intervention for Early Psychosis

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in SAPS at 6 months, change from baseline in SAPS at 9 months

  2. Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in SANS at 6 months, change from baseline in SANS at 9 months

  3. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Schedule (RSES)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in RSES at 6 months, change from baseline in RSES at 9 months

  4. Self-stigma of Mental Illness Scale (SSMIS)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in SSMIS at 6 months, change from baseline in SSMIS at 9 months

  5. The Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in BHS at 6 months, change from baseline in BHS at 9 months

  6. Maryland Assessment of Recovery in People with Serious Mental Illness Scale (MARS)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in MARS at 6 months, change from baseline in MARS at 9 months

  7. Social Functioning Scale (SFS)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in SFS at 6 months, change from baseline in SFS at 9 months

  8. Profile of Mood States (POMS)

    Measured: Baseline, Change from Baseline in POMS at 6 months, change from baseline in POMS at 9 months

  9. Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8

    Measured: at 6 months (only to those in the Participatory Video Intervention Group)

  10. Scale to Assess Narrative Development (STAND)

    Measured: at 6 months

  11. Metacognition Assessment Scale-Abbreviated (MAS-A)

    Measured: at 6 months

  12. Qualitative Focus Group - Participant descriptions of their experience with Participatory Video and suggestions for how to improve the Participatory Video intervention

    Measured: at 6 months (only for those in the Participatory Video intervention group)

  13. Individual Semi-Structured Interviews - Participant description of their individual experience with the PV intervention group and any changes they feel it may have engendered in their life

    Measured: at 9 months (only for those in the Participatory Video-intervention group)

  14. Recruitment Rates

    Measured: baseline

  15. Consent Rates

    Measured: baseline

  16. Completion Rates

    Measured: at 9 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted10 Feb 2015 (estimated)
  2. Study startJan 2016
  3. Primary completionDec 2016
  4. Study completionDec 2016

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
10 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02360566
Sponsor's protocol ID
8211
Status last verified
Sep 2017
First submitted
2 Feb 2015
Last updated
11 Sep 2017
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • France CM, Uhlin BD. Narrative as an outcome domain in psychosis. Psychol Psychother. 2006 Mar;79(Pt 1):53-67. doi: 10.1348/147608305X41001.

    PubMed 16611421
  • Roe D, Davidson L. Self and narrative in schizophrenia: time to author a new story. Med Humanit. 2005 Dec;31(2):89-94. doi: 10.1136/jmh.2005.000214.

    PubMed 23674667
  • Chadwick PK. Peer-professional first-person account: schizophrenia from the inside--phenomenology and the integration of causes and meanings. Schizophr Bull. 2007 Jan;33(1):166-73. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbl034. Epub 2006 Sep 14.

    PubMed 16973785
  • Lysaker PH, Buck KD, Ringer J. The recovery of metacognitive capacity in schizophrenia across 32 months of individual psychotherapy: A case study. Psychotherapy Research 17(6): 713-720, 2007.

  • Windell D, Norman RM. A qualitative analysis of influences on recovery following a first episode of psychosis. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2013 Aug;59(5):493-500. doi: 10.1177/0020764012443751. Epub 2012 Apr 24.

    PubMed 22532125
  • McAdams DP, McLean KC. Narrative identity. Current Directions in Psychological Science 22(3): 233-238, 2013.

  • Cavelti M, Kvrgic S, Beck EM, Rusch N, Vauth R. Self-stigma and its relationship with insight, demoralization, and clinical outcome among people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Compr Psychiatry. 2012 Jul;53(5):468-79. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2011.08.001. Epub 2011 Sep 28.

    PubMed 21956043
  • Greben M, Schweitzer RD, Bargenquast R. Mechanisms of change in psychotherapy for people diagnosed with schizophrenia: the role of narrative reflexivity in promoting recovery. The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling 20(1): 1-14, 2014.

  • Roe D, Hasson-Ohayon I, Mashiach-Eizenberg M, Derhy O, Lysaker PH, Yanos PT. Narrative enhancement and cognitive therapy (NECT) effectiveness: a quasi-experimental study. J Clin Psychol. 2014 Apr;70(4):303-12. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22050. Epub 2013 Oct 2.

    PubMed 24114797
  • White SA. (2003). Participatory video: Images that transform and empower. Sage.

  • Yang KH. (2012). Reflexivity, participation, and video. The handbook of participatory video, 100-114.

  • Shaw J, Robertson C. (1997). Participatory video: a practical approach to using video creatively in group development work. London (ua): Routledge.

  • Bery R. (2003). Participatory video that empowers. Participatory video: Images that transform and empower, 102-121.

  • Luttrell W, Restler V, Fontaine C. Youth Video-Making. Handbook of Participatory Video, 164, 2012.

  • Norman CD, Yip AL. eHealth promotion and social innovation with youth: using social and visual media to engage diverse communities. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;172:54-70.

    PubMed 22910502

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Participatory Video Intervention for Early Psychosis in people with Psychotic Disorders and Schizophrenia, run by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 11 Sep 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) (time frame: Baseline, Change from Baseline in SAPS at 6 months, change from baseline in SAPS at 9 months). The study lists 16 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02360566, which also lists 16 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 11 Sep 2017.

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