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

Williams, A Jess, Cleare, Seonaid, Borschmann, Rohan, Tench, Christopher R, Gross, James, Hollis, Chris, Chapman-Nisar, Amelia, Naeche, Nkem, Townsend, Ellen, Slovak, Petr·2024·BMJ Open
DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079801PMC PMC10806609
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Introduction: Purrble, 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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Authors
Williams, A. J., Cleare, S., Borschmann, R., Tench, C. R., Gross, J., Hollis, C., Chapman-Nisar, A., Naeche, N., Townsend, E., & Slovak, P.
Affiliations
  • Department of Informatics, King's College London, London, UK
  • Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
  • Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
  • Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  • University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  • School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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BMJ Open
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2024-01
Volume
14
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1
Pages
e079801
ISSN
2044-6055
DOI
10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079801
PMC
PMC10806609
Cited by
8
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12
Language
en
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (unspecified, 8 d)
Funders
  • UKRI MRC Digital Youth (MR/W002450/1)
  • UKRI UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (MR/T041897/1)
  • UK Research and Innovation

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