Recruiting

Healthy ReStart

Sponsor:

University of Illinois at Chicago

Code:

NCT05544344

Conditions

Mental Disorder

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Healthy ReStart

Services as Usual

Study Details

Brief 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.

Conditions

Mental Disorder

Study ID

NCT05544344

Start date

Jul 1, 2022

Status verified date

Sep, 2025

Completion date

Jun 30, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun 30, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

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

Study Design

Enrollment

60 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Intervention

Subjects receive an intervention with 4 components: establishing a working alliance with a health coach, completing an online inventory to assess personal wellness in eight life areas, developing a Restart plan that includes personalized life goals, and follow-along with a health coach to address barriers to goal attainment and to reinforce achievement.

active comparator: Services as Usual

Subjects receive mental health services as usual.

Interventions

Healthy 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.

Services as Usual

Subjects receive mental health services as usual.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in Perceived Competence [ Time Frame: Study entry (pre-intervention), 6 months post-study entry ]
  • Change in Depressive Symptoms [ Time Frame: Study entry (pre-intervention), 6 months post-study entry ]
  • Change in Anxiety Symptoms [ Time Frame: Study entry (pre-intervention), 6 months post-study entry ]
  • Change in Coping Mastery [ Time Frame: Study entry (pre-intervention), 6 months post-study entry ]
  • Change in Empowerment [ Time Frame: Study entry (pre-intervention), 6 months post-study entry ]
  • Change in Recovery [ Time Frame: Study entry (pre-intervention), 6 months post-study entry ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Judith A Cook, Ph.D.

312-355-3921jcook@uic.edu

Locations

Trilogy Behavioral Health Care

Recruiting

Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60626

Contacts

Samantha Hadley

shandley@trilogyinc.org

More Information

Sponsor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Last update posted

Sep 15, 2025

Last verified

Sep, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Illinois at Chicago on 2025-09-15.