Taking Action for College Students

The goal of this research is to investigate whether a peer-delivered illness self-management program called Taking Action can help college students with serious mental illnesses. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the experimental condition (Taking Action) or the control condition (information only). Participants in the experimental condition will attend five 2.5-hour Taking Action sessions. Participants will complete three interviews (baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up) to assess how well the program works, is liked, and benefits students clinically and academically. The investigators seek to test the following hypotheses: Compared to controls, students who do the Taking Action program will report greater improvements in mental health self-management attitudes, skills, and behaviors and will report greater improvements in mental health symptoms and recovery, and better academic outcomes.

NCT Number	NCT06700902
Lead Sponsor	Temple University Collaborators: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
Conditions	Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia
Enrollment	300 participants
Start Date	2024-09-01
Primary Completion	2027-05 (estimated)
Study Completion	2027-05 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-12-29