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NCT06025942

Purrble With LGBTQ+ Youth Who Have Self-harmful Thoughts

Completed NA Last updated 4 March 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Purrble intervention in Emotion Regulation in 155 participants. Completed in 1 March 2025.

Timeline
11 January 2024
Primary endpoint
23 October 2024
1 March 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsorKing's College London
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingdouble
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment155
Start date11 January 2024
Primary completion23 October 2024
Estimated completion1 March 2025
Sites1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

King's College London

Who can join

Adults 16 to 25, any sex, with Emotion Regulation or Self Harm. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

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.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

  1. A socially assistive robot to support mental wellbeing in LGBTQ+ young people at risk of self-harm: a randomized controlled trial.
    Williams AJ, Rhodes CA, Cleare S, Borschmann R, et al · · 2026 · PMID 42243547 · DOI 10.1038/s41591-026-04422-6
  2. Enhancing emotion regulation with an in situ socially assistive robot among LGBTQ+ youth with self-harm ideation: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
    Williams AJ, Cleare S, Borschmann R, Tench CR, et al · · 2024 · PMID 38195171 · DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079801

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