Abstract | BACKGROUND: OBJECTIVE: To pilot the feasibility and potential efficacy of the Empower Resilience Intervention to build capacity by increasing resilience and health behaviors and decreasing symptoms and negative health behaviors with young adults in an educational setting who have had ACEs. DESIGN: A two-group pre-post repeated measures design to compare symptoms, health behaviors, and resilience and written participant responses. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant cohort by time interaction for physical activity in the intervention group. There was no significant change in risk behaviors or resilience score by cohort. Young adults in the intervention group reported building strengths, reframing resilience, and creating support connections. CONCLUSIONS: An increase in health behavior is theoretically consistent with this strengths-based intervention. Evaluating this intervention with a larger sample is important. Interrupting the ACE to illness trajectory is complex. This short-term empower resilience intervention, however, holds promise as an opportunity to reconsider the negative effects of the trauma of the past and build on strengths to develop a preferred future.
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Authors | Genevieve E Chandler, Susan Jo Roberts, Lisa Chiodo |
Journal | Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
(J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc)
2015 Nov-Dec
Vol. 21
Issue 6
Pg. 406-16
ISSN: 1532-5725 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 26711904
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Copyright | © The Author(s) 2015. |
Topics |
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Child Abuse
(psychology)
- Feasibility Studies
- Feeding and Eating Disorders
(prevention & control)
- Female
- Health Behavior
- Humans
- Life Change Events
- Program Evaluation
- Resilience, Psychological
- Risk Factors
- Risk-Taking
- Smoking Prevention
- Substance-Related Disorders
(prevention & control)
- Young Adult
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