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Enhancing Emotion Regulation With an In-situ Socially Assistive Robot Among LGBTQ+ Youth With Self-harm Ideation: a Randomised Control Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Purrble intervention for Emotion Regulation and Self Harm. Completed, enrolled 155 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The primary aim of the proposed Randomised Control study is to investigate the effects of a socially assisted robot (i.e. Purrble) on emotional regulation difficulties (measured by DERS8) with young LGBTQ+ people who have self-harmful (with or without suicidal intention) (in comparison to a wait-listed control). Secondary aims include investigating the effects of the Purrble on young people's self-harmful thoughts, symptoms of anxiety and depression, alongside quantitative and qualitative (interviews) measures of engagement with the intervention.
Study Details
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Interventions
When the Purrble is picked up, it emits a frantic heartbeat that slows down if the person uses calm stroking movements. If the Purrble is soothed for long enough, it transitions into a purring vibration indicating a calm, content state. Logic model underlying the intervention: Level 1: in-the-moment soothing support to young people in emotional moments when they would attempt to utilise emotion regulation (ER) strategies to calm down. Level 2: mechanisms that facilitate long-term engagement with the intervention, building on positive subjective experience of Level 1. Level 3: shift in young peoples' ER practices and implicit beliefs about emotion, after repeated experience of Levels 1-2. * see JMIR Res Protoc 2021;10(11):e28914 (doi: 10.2196/28914)