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ArticleBMJ open2024

Enhancing emotion regulation with an in situ socially assistive robot among LGBTQ+ youth with self-harm ideation: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

A Jess Williams, Seonaid Cleare, Rohan Borschmann, Christopher R Tench, James Gross, Chris Hollis, Amelia Chapman-Nisar, Nkem Naeche, Ellen Townsend, Petr Slovak and 1 more

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Article in BMJ open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06025942 (Enhancing Emotion Regulation With an In-situ Socially Assistive Robot Among LGBTQ+ Youth With Self-harm Ideation), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT06025942 nacompletednot on this map

Enhancing Emotion Regulation With an In-situ Socially Assistive Robot Among LGBTQ+ Youth With Self-harm Ideation: a Randomised Control Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorKing's College LondonRan2024 to 2025Enrolled155ConditionsEmotion Regulation, Self HarmArmsPurrble intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

A Jess WilliamsDepartment of Informatics, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3987-3824
Seonaid CleareDepartment of Informatics, King's College London, London, UK seonaid.cleare@glasgow.ac.uk.
Rohan BorschmannMurdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Christopher R TenchDivision of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9067-0494
James GrossStanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Chris HollisDivision of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Amelia Chapman-NisarUniversity of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Nkem NaecheUniversity of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Ellen TownsendSchool of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4677-5958
Petr SlovakDepartment of Informatics, King's College London, London, UK.
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University of Nottingham · GBKing's College London · GBStanford University · USUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/W002450/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionPurrble, a socially assistive robot, was codesigned with children to support in situ emotion regulation. Preliminary evidence has found that LGBTQ+ youth are receptive to Purrble and find it to be an acceptable intervention to assist with emotion dysregulation and their experiences of self-harm. The present study is designed to evaluate the impact of access to Purrble among LGBTQ+ youth who have self-harmful thoughts, when compared with waitlist controls. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The study is a single-blind, randomised control trial comparing access to the Purrble robot with waitlist control. A total of 168 LGBTQ+ youth aged 16-25 years with current self-harmful ideation will be recruited, all based within the UK. The primary outcome is emotion dysregulation (Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale-8) measured weekly across a 13-week period, including three pre-deployment timepoints. Secondary outcomes include self-harm (Self-Harm Questionnaire), anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7) and depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9). We will conduct analyses using linear mixed models to assess primary and secondary hypotheses. Intervention participants will have unlimited access to Purrble over the deployment period, which can be used as much or as little as they like. After all assessments, control participants will receive their Purrble, with all participants keeping the robot after the end of the study. After the study has ended, a subset of participants will be invited to participate in semistructured interviews to explore engagement and appropriation of Purrble, considering the young people's own views of Purrble as an intervention device. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethical approval was received from King's College London (RESCM-22/23-34570). Findings will be disseminated in peer review open access journals and at academic conferences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT06025942.

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Emotional RegulationRoboticsSelf-Injurious BehaviorSexual and Gender MinoritiesAdolescentChildHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSingle-Blind Methodadolescentsmental healthprotocols & guidelinesrandomized controlled trialsexual and gender minoritiessuicide & self-harm

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PMID38195171
PMCPMC10806609
OpenAlexW4390722100

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