Peer-led Group Intervention for Coping With Disaster

The present project partners with leading faith communities in Houston to provide expert-led educational workshops to a diverse sample of adults on normative and concerning response to disaster. Secondly implementing peer-led interventions where a trained adult leads others through an evidence-based manualized intervention. Lastly, identifying and referring individuals who require more intensive services to a higher level of care.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Anger; Depressive Disorder; PTSD; Depressive Symptoms; Anxiety Disorder
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Detailed Description

Approximately 20% of individuals have significant behavioral health concerns. Exposure to a disaster like Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath often exacerbates pre-existing issues and/or brings new issues, with post-traumatic stress presenting in manners such as anxiety, depression, conduct issues and/or somatic issues. Approaches are needed that educate community members about both normative and concerning responses to disaster focused on coping skills development. A particular approach, peer-led intervention groups have been shown effective at delivering these types of intervention. Brief, psycho-educational peer-led programs have shown effectiveness in a variety of forums including helping promote adjustment among those who have experienced trauma. There will be six group sessions every two weeks. Sessions will include how to teach appropriate coping techniques to respond to the distress, confronting distressing memories related to the disaster, and emotion regulation techniques. After the group sessions end, individuals who require a more intensive service will be referred to a higher level of care.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 18
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
      • Baylor College of Medicine: Jamail Specialty Care Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years and older and English speaking.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals under the age of 18 and non-English speaking and participants who do not wish to participate in this study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; The form of treatment will involve 6 group sessions every two weeks about an hour each. Sessions consist of teaching a different coping technique in each session to help cope with disaster or other events.	Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; The form of treatment will involve 6 group sessions every two weeks about an hour each. Sessions consist of teaching a different coping technique in each session to help cope with disaster or other events.; Other Names: CBT; Skills for Psychological Recovery

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
PTSD Symptom Scale - Adult	The PTSD Symptom Scale - Self Report is a 17-item, Likert-scale, self-report questionnaire designed to assess the symptoms of PTSD according to DSM-IV. Each of the 17 items is rated on a scale from 0 to 3, with total score ranging from 0 to 51 by adding them up.	Post-treatment, which is 12 weeks after baseline.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine
• Collaborators: American National Red Cross
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Eric Storch, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 29, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 4, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 5, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): April 9, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 27, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 22, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Mental Disorders; Pathologic Processes; Mood Disorders; Depression; Depressive Disorder; Disease; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: H-44353

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No