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ArticleJournal of deaf studies and deaf education2025

Psychotherapy research in the deaf community: pilot clinical trial lessons learned.

Melissa L Anderson, Alexander M Wilkins, Sheri Hostovsky, Emma Pici-D'Ottavio, Aileen Aldalur, Felicia McGinnis, Kayla Meza

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7 authors.

Melissa L AndersonDeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery, Department of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6141-5013
Alexander M WilkinsDeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery, Department of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0152-1505
Sheri HostovskyDeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery, Department of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655, United States.
Emma Pici-D'OttavioDeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery, Department of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655, United States.
Aileen AldalurDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY 14642, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6067-8230
Felicia McGinnisDeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery, Department of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655, United States.
Kayla MezaDeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery, Department of Psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655, United States.

Funding

Evaluating Signs of Safety: A Deaf-Accessible Therapy Toolkit for AUD and TraumaR01AA031010 · NIAAA · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI Melissa Lee Anderson · 2023 to 2026
$3.1M
Piloting Signs of Safety: A Deaf-Accessible Therapy Toolkit for Alcohol Use Disorder and TraumaR34AA026929 · NIAAA · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI ANDERSON, MELISSA LEE · 2018 to 2020
$1.2M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA031010NIAAA NIH HHS R34 AA026929NIH HHS R01AA031010NIH HHS R34AA026929NIH HHS R34AA026929-S
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Abstract

At the time of publication, there are no evidence-based psychotherapies to treat any behavioral health condition with Deaf clients. This article describes unique study design considerations for psychotherapy clinical trials conducted in the U.S. Deaf community. We synthesized emergent themes from participant exit interviews with feasibility data and real-life challenges that our team encountered when implementing the Signs of Safety pilot clinical trial, conducted from 2019 to 2022. Particularly illustrative participant accounts were selected to demonstrate five major lessons learned-expanding reach for recruitment; formally assessing participants' ASL fluency; selecting ethically-sound control groups; streamlining video fidelity monitoring; and making crystallized outcome assessments ASL-accessible. These lessons learned informed the design of the first-ever full-scale psychotherapy trial in the U.S. Deaf community, to be conducted from late autumn 2024 through 2028. This trial will potentially validate the first evidence-based therapy for Deaf people and provide a vital roadmap for conducting Deaf community-engaged clinical trials.

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Clinical Trials as TopicDeafnessPersons with Hearing DisabilitiesPsychotherapyAdultDeaf CultureFemaleHumansMalePilot ProjectsResearch DesignSign Language

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PMID39887011
PMCPMC12187466

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