Using Performance Feedback and Facilitation to Integrate Motivational Interviewing in Teen Helpline Services
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 206
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- General Help Seeking Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The proposed study will establish a foundation for research within peer-delivered helplines for teens. It aims to evaluate the impact of a Motivational Interviewing training at peer-to-peer helpline. The study will leverage emerging technologies to surmount the challenges of providing tailored training to a large and diverse mental health workforce at scale.
Aim 1: Adapt Motivational Interviewing (MI) strategies for use in a teen peer-delivered text-based digital helpline.
Aim 2: Co-design performance feedback (PF) and facilitated practice (FP) processes to support MI adherence among peer helpers.
Aim 3: Examine feasibility, acceptability, and initial outcomes in a pilot feasibility trial. Peer helpers (N=50) will be randomized to receive MI training or MI training + PF-FP.
详细描述
This study will adapt and implement Motivational Interviewing (MI) within Teen Talk App, a text-based teen-to-teen helpline, with the goal of increasing real-world help-seeking among youth users. Using human-centered design methods, teen helpers, supervisors, and users will participate in focus groups, interviews, and iterative prototyping activities to adapt MI for brief text-based interactions and to refine an implementation strategy consisting of performance feedback and facilitated practice (PF-FP). Stakeholder input will be used to ensure the intervention and implementation strategy are acceptable, feasible, and fit within existing helpline workflows.
Following adaptation, a pilot feasibility trial will evaluate the implementation strategy among Teen Talk peer helpers. Helpers who enroll in the study (N=50) will be randomized to receive either training as usual or enhanced training consisting of monthly performance feedback and facilitated practice sessions over a 6-month period. Teen Talk users (N=100) will also be recruited to assess clinical outcomes, including help-seeking behaviors and mental health symptoms. The study will provide preliminary data on implementation outcomes, helper MI skill use, and user outcomes to inform a future fully powered effectiveness-implementation trial.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Teen Helpers
- •Current helpline peer helpers
- •Aged 14-19 years.
- •Provides assent and documented parental consent (when applicable).
- •Completes study measures prior to the first Motivational Interviewing (MI) training session.
- •Attends and completes assigned MI training activities.
- •Has access to technology required for online participation (computer, tablet, or smartphone with internet access; videoconferencing capability if needed).
- •Plans to continue helpline activities throughout the study period.
- •Aged 13-19 years.
- •Current U.S. resident.
- •Has engaged in at least 20 back-and-forth text exchanges with a helpline volunteer.
- •Demonstrates active communication and engagement on the helpline platform.
- •Has access to technology required to complete online surveys and, if selected, interviews (computer, tablet, or smartphone with internet access).
排除标准
- •Teen Helpers
- •- Plans to discontinue helpline activities within the next 8 months.
- •Identified as currently experiencing acute suicide risk (i.e., assigned a "high-risk" flag by the helpline algorithm or identified as high risk by helpline staff).
- •Requires immediate crisis intervention or emergency services that could be disrupted by participation in the research study.
研究组 & 干预措施
Performance feedback and facilitated practice
Helpline volunteers randomized into this study arm will receive additional MI training through feedback and practice (they will receive standard helpline training and MI training).
干预措施: Motivational Interviewing Training (Other)
Training as usual
Helpline volunteers randomized into this study arm will not receive additional MI training through feedback or practice (they will receive standard helpline training only).
结局指标
主要结局
General Help Seeking Questionnaire
时间窗: 11 months (consent to post 6-month follow up)
Measure of help seeking behavior. Minimum score = 10; Maximum score = 70. Higher scores indicate greater intentions or willingness to seek help.
Patient Health Questionnaire-8
时间窗: 11 months (consent to post 6-month follow up)
Measure helpline user distress. Minimum score = 0; Maximum score = 24. Higher scores indicate greater depressive symptom severity.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Sylvanna Vargas
Assistant Professor
San Diego State University