Disclosure-related distress
Post-intervention: 84 (1 RCT
50
)
Longest follow-up: 62 (1 RCT
50
)
| One RCT50 with high risk of bias (unclear direction) reported on participants’ distress related to disclosure of mental illness. The outcome was assessed by a question about how distressed or worried they are about disclosing mental illness. Answers were rated from 1 (not at all) to 7 (very much). This single item was used as a screening item for study inclusion, with a score of 4 or more required to be enrolled to the trial. This RCT compared the effectiveness of HOP program to treatment as usual among adolescent psychiatric patients, who were mostly were female (69.3%), born in Germany (94.8%) and were around 22 months since the first psychiatric diagnosis. At post-intervention, the between-group difference for change from baseline was statistically significant, with the mean between-group difference of –0.44 (95% CI (–0.79 to –0.08). At the 6-week follow-up, the distress related to disclosure of mental illness was significantly lower in HOP group compared to TAU group (mean between-group difference for change from baseline = –0.78 [95% CI –1.16 to –0.40]). |
Very low
due to serious concerns for risk of bias, concerns for inconsistency, serious concerns for indirectness and imprecision.a
| HOP may be favoured vs. TAU with respects to attitudes to disclosure post-intervention, but the evidence is very uncertain. HOP may be favoured vs. TAU with respects to attitudes to disclosure at longest follow-up but the evidence is very uncertain. |