Recruiting

Community Mental Health

Sponsor:

Louisiana State University and A&M College

Code:

NCT06093737

Conditions

Mental Health

Emotional Wellbeing

Anxiety

Depression

Stress

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

COPE: Communities Organizing for Power through Empathy

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the impact of the Communities Organizing for Power through Empathy (COPE) intervention in adults in communities having recently experienced or at risk of experiencing disaster. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • How does the COPE intervention affect individual mental health?
  • How does the COPE intervention affect protective factors like coping and social support?
  • How does the COPE intervention affect community resilience?
  • How does delivery of the COPE intervention in partnership with a broad-based organization affect participant recruitment and retention, as well as outcomes?

Participants will participate in the three session COPE intervention. Researchers will compare individuals who participate in the COPE intervention to individuals who participate in house meetings to see if the COPE intervention improves mental health, coping, social support and community resilience. Researchers will also examine factors that affect implementation and intervention delivery.

Conditions

Mental Health

Emotional Wellbeing

Anxiety

Depression

Stress

Study ID

NCT06093737

Start date

Mar 25, 2023

Status verified date

Oct, 2023

Completion date

Jun, 2025

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jun, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals 18 years of age or older who are staff or members of an organization that is part of Together Baton Rouge and who participate in the intervention or are/were involved in the adaptation or implementation of the brief intervention in any capacity

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Persons who are not 18 years of age or older and persons who are not staff or members of an organization that is part of Together Baton Rouge and/or not involved with the intervention

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: COPE Intervention

Is a three session brief group psychoeducational intervention. Session 1 is 4 hours, Session 2 and 3 are 1.5 hours. It is delivered in groups of 8-15 people with sessions spaced 1 month apart.

active comparator: House Meeting Control

Is a 1.5 hour group meeting delivered in groups of 8-15 people spaced 1 month apart.

Interventions

COPE: Communities Organizing for Power through Empathy

A three session brief group psychoeducational intervention. Session 1 is 4 hours, Session 2 and 3 are 1.5 hours. It is delivered in groups of 8-15 people with sessions spaced 1 month apart.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in perceived stress from baseline [ Time Frame: T1 (pre-intervention), T2 (1 month post-intervention), T3 (2 months post-intervention), T4 (3 months post-intervention) ]
  • Change in depression symptoms from baseline [ Time Frame: T1 (pre-intervention), T2 (1 month post-intervention), T3 (2 months post-intervention), T4 (3 months post-intervention) ]
  • Change in anxiety symptoms from baseline [ Time Frame: T1 (pre-intervention), T2 (1 month post-intervention), T3 (2 months post-intervention), T4 (3 months post-intervention) ]
  • Change in stress symptoms from baseline [ Time Frame: T1 (pre-intervention), T2 (1 month post-intervention), T3 (2 months post-intervention), T4 (3 months post-intervention) ]
  • Change in perceived social support from baseline [ Time Frame: T1 (pre-intervention), T2 (1 month post-intervention), T3 (2 months post-intervention), T4 (3 months post-intervention) ]
  • Change in coping from baseline [ Time Frame: T1 (pre-intervention), T2 (1 month post-intervention), T3 (2 months post-intervention), T4 (3 months post-intervention) ]
  • Change in community resilience from baseline [ Time Frame: T1 (pre-intervention), T2 (1 month post-intervention), T3 (2 months post-intervention), T4 (3 months post-intervention) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jennifer L Scott, PhD, LCSW

225-578-0433jenscott@lsu.edu

Tara L Powell, PhD

217-300-0917tlpowell@illinois.edu

Locations

Together Baton Rouge

Recruiting

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70802

Contacts

Khalid Hudson

khudson.tbr@gmail.com

More Information

Sponsor

Louisiana State University and A&M College

Last update posted

Oct 23, 2023

Last verified

Oct, 2023

Keywords

  • mental health
  • community-based participatory research
  • emotional wellbeing
  • perceived stress

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Louisiana State University and A&M College on 2023-10-23.