Media and Mental Health

This study's goal is to find if using the ThinkHumanTV program during 6 weekly sessions of watching Netflix or Disney series or movies for 90 minutes, together with 4 - 8 members of the Whole Health Center and EpiCenter and a discussion leader, improves the wellbeing of the group participants.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Emotional Development; Mental and Behavioral Disorders; Mental Resilience; Emotional Awareness
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: ThinkHumanTV

Detailed Description

This study's goal is to find out whether 6 weekly sessions of watching certain TV series or movies in a group setting, augmented through education from ThinkHuman TV about emotions and coping with emotions embedded in the process of watching (with a discussion leader), will improve the resilience of mental health patients enrolled in a long-term community mental health center. This will be tested by comparing ThinkHuman TV augmented movies with watching moving in a group without ThinkHuman TV educational activities to see if there is better improvement in resilience and well-being of the group participants who have THinkHuman included as compared to those who do not.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 70
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Brent Gary; Phone Number: (520) 626-8000; Email: bgary@arizona.edu
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Karen Weihs, MD, MD; Phone Number: 520-626-8940; Email: weihs@psychiatry.arizona.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Arizona
    • Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724
      • Recruiting
      • University of Arizona
      • Contact: Karen Weihs, MD; Phone Number: 520-626-8940; Email: weihs@psychiatry.arizona.edu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age ≥ 18years old
2. Recipient of treatment at WHC for at least 6 months.
3. English speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Actively manic
2. Actively suicidal
3. Has not been dependent on drugs or alcohol for at least 30 days
4. Deemed to be at significant risk of being dangerous to self or others by the patients' WHC physician
5. Deemed inappropriate based on judgment of WHC physician informed by WHC staff

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Media Only
Active Comparator: ThinkHuman TV	Device: ThinkHumanTV; Emotional Education Program

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from baseline in emotional awareness/intelligence.	Assessed using The Emotional Regulation Questionnaire; Score: Minimum = 0 Maximum = 70 (higher better outcome) Assessed using Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale; Score: Minimum = 32 Maximum = 160 (higher better outcome)	3 month interventional period
Change from baseline in anxiety.	Assessed using The Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) -Score: Minimum = 0 Maximum = 20 (higher worse outcome)	3 month interventional period
Change from baseline in depression symptoms.	Assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CES-D) -Score: Minimum = 0 Maximum = 30 (higher worse outcome)	3 month interventional period

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change from baseline in quality of life.	Assessed by Q-LES-Q-SF questionnaire -Score: Minimum = 14 Maximum = 70 (higher better outcome)	After 3 month interventional period

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Arizona

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 6, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): August 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): November 1, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 10, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 10, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): December 16, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 12, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 11, 2026
• Last Verified: February 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Healthy Adults; Emotional Awareness
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: STUDY00005488

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES

IPD Plan Description

A limited data set (including all study data with identifiers other than date removed) will be shared by secure file transfer to consultants at Affectifi, Inc and will be available by request from the study investigators upon request through secure file transfer.

Only general summary information will be shared with the study funder.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: Yes
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No