Healthy ReStart Intervention to Improve Health and Functioning
University of Illinois at Chicago
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.
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 i…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 and older * Diagnosis of serious mental illness defined as a DSM 5 psychiatric disorder and moderate to severe functional impairment * Membership in a collaborating community mental health agency * Access to the Internet for online meetings * Able to provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * A cognitive impairment preventing informed consent * Unable to communicate in English
Interventions
- BehavioralHealthy 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.
- OtherServices as Usual
Subjects receive mental health services as usual.
Location
- Trilogy Behavioral Health CareChicago, Illinois