Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT04304417 |
| Other study ID # |
2019/20-020 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
February 17, 2020 |
| Est. completion date |
April 1, 2022 |
Study information
| Verified date |
May 2022 |
| Source |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
This study analyzes which variables enhance or hinder community integration among people with
severe mental disorder. Participants will complete a questionnaire to test our hypotheses:
- Hypothesis 1: group identification predicts less self-dehumanization and self-stigma,
and more empowerment, these in turn predict more community integration.
- Hypothesis 2: the relationship between group identification and self-dehumanization and
self-stigma is moderated by group value.
- Hypothesis 3: when group identification is low, group identification predicts higher
community integration, but this relationship is mediated by diagnosis concealment.
Description:
Community integration, which includes physical integration (e.g. participation in activities,
as well as use of goods and services in the community in a self-initiated manner), social
integration (e.g. quantity and quality of social relationships) and psychological integration
(e.g. perception of belongingness to the community), is a necessary element to achieve
personal recovery among people with severe mental disorder (SMD).
Group identification, based on Social Identity Theory, emphasizes an individual's definition
of who they are in relation to their group membership. When individuals have a strong
tendency to define their self-concept in terms of the group they belong to and uphold the
values of their group, they are said to have high identification with the group. Group value,
on the other hand, refers to the evaluative judgment of one's social group, which reflects
the extent to which individuals feel positively or negatively toward their ingroup, and
people who have positive perceptions toward their group are more strongly identified with it.
Self-dehumanization is the process by which people dehumanize themselves. This can happen in
two ways: when they perceiving themselves as unintelligent, amoral, irrational, wild, etc.;
thus perceived as animal-like, it is called animalistic dehumanization; or when they perceive
themselves as lacking emotion, warmth, vitality, etc.; perceived as object-like, which is
referred to as mechanistic dehumanization.
Self-stigma occurs when people accept the negative stereotypes about their in-group apply to
themselves. This has shown to influence the community integration of people with SMD.
Empowerment is understood as the process by which people, organizations and communities
acquire control over their own lives. People with SMD who endorsed higher group value were
more likely to be involved in educating the public about mental health and helping others
with mental disorder, which are considered a behavioral manifestation of empowerment.
In order to test the hypotheses previously mentioned, the users of the public centers of
social care for people with SMD of the State of Madrid (Spain) will be contacted. The
inclusion criteria are: to have a diagnosis of SMD and disorder consciousness. The exclusion
criteria are: to be underage and legally incapacitated. Participants will complete a
pencil-and-paper questionnaire, including the measurement of the variables previously
mentioned and some socio-demographical questions, in the centers they attend.
The analytical program SPSS.25 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) will be used to
conduct the appropriate test of hypothesis (correlation, regression, mediation, moderation).
