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NCT06025942
Purrble With LGBTQ+ Youth Who Have Self-harmful Thoughts
NA trial testing Purrble intervention in Emotion Regulation in 155 participants. Completed in 1 March 2025.
23 October 2024
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | King's College London |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | double |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 155 |
| Start date | 11 January 2024 |
| Primary completion | 23 October 2024 |
| Estimated completion | 1 March 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across United Kingdom |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Purrble intervention
Conditions studied
- Emotion Regulation — all drugs for Emotion Regulation →
- Self Harm — all drugs for Self Harm →
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):
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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 -
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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Verify against primary sources
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- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06025942 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by King's College London
- Last refreshed: 4 March 2025
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