Project Type
independent
Project Start Date
10/01/2016
Project End Date
09/30/2021

In close collaboration with women from our National Community Advisory Board (NCAB), this study is a randomized controlled trial of our intervention, Zest: Promoting the Psychological Health of Women with SCI. We will enroll a national sample of women with SCI, half of whom will be offering the program in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). We will conduct rolling recruitment to obtain 6 cohorts of women with SCI who will be randomly assigned to either our 10-week psychological health intervention condition, Zest, or a control condition. With assessments at three time points (pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 6-month follow-up), we will evaluate the immediate as well as longer-term efficacy of the Zest program and test the mechanisms through which the intervention influences key psychological health outcomes.