Video-visit Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Anxiety
- Sponsor
- San Diego State University
- Enrollment
- 12
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Participant Acceptability Questionnaire - Parent (PAQ-P)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
This project focuses on adapting and pilot testing an efficacious brief behavioral therapy (STEP-UP) for youths with anxiety or depression to be delivered as a telehealth intervention by clinic staff in low-resource community health centers (CHCs).
Investigators
V. Robin Weersing
Professor
San Diego State University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Youth is a patient at a participating community health center (CHC) site
- •Youth is clinically referred by a provider and / or has anxiety and / or depression as a diagnosis or target problem in their medical record
- •Youth is in the physical and legal custody of the caretaker and is not currently involved in the foster care system
- •Youth is able and willing to conduct study assessments and intervention sessions in English
- •Primary caretaker is able and willing to conduct study assessments and intervention sessions in English or in Spanish
- •Youth is functioning at or above the academic level of a typical 8-year-old child (i.e., placed in at least the second-grade level school across all subjects in a general education classroom)
- •Primary caretaker agrees that focusing on anxiety and / or depression would be a useful primary target for treatment
- •Youth has clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and / or depression by youth or caretaker report
Exclusion Criteria
- •Youth is receiving an alternate intervention for anxiety or depression
- •Youth or parent reports that the youth is experiencing active suicidal ideation with plan or intent (i.e., within last three months) and / or has made a suicide attempt within the last six months
- •Youth or parent reports that the youth is currently engaging in non-suicidal self-injury (i.e., within last three months)
- •Youth or parent reports that the youth has experienced recent physical or sexual abuse (i.e., within last three months).
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Participant Acceptability Questionnaire - Parent (PAQ-P)
Time Frame: Week 16 (post-intervention)
Parent ratings of the acceptability of the telehealth intervention. Responses were classified as "little or no technical problems" or "technical difficulties."
Participant Acceptability Questionnaire - Child (PAQ-C)
Time Frame: Week 16 (post-intervention)
Youth ratings of the acceptability of the intervention. Youths were asked whether they would recommend the intervention to a friend. Responses were included "would recommend" and "unlikely."
Client Satisfaction Scale - Parent (CSQ-8-P)
Time Frame: Week 16 (post-intervention)
Parent ratings of satisfaction with the intervention. Ratings of "mostly" or "very" satisfied were coded as "satisfied." All other ratings were coded as "unsatisfied."
Minimum Attendance
Time Frame: Week 16 (post-intervention)
Receipt of a minimum dose of intervention. A minimum dose was defined as 8 or more sessions of the intervention.
Client Satisfaction Scale - Child (CSQ-8-C)
Time Frame: Week 16 (post-intervention)
Youth ratings of satisfaction with the intervention. Ratings of "mostly" or "very" satisfied were coded as "satisfied." All other ratings were coded as "unsatisfied."
Secondary Outcomes
- Mood and Feelings Questionnaire - Parent (MFQ-P)(Week 16 (post-intervention))
- Mood and Feelings Questionnaire - Child (MFQ-C)(Week 16 (post-intervention))
- Child Avoidance Measure - Child (CAMP)(Week 16 (post-intervention))
- Child Avoidance Measure - Parent (CAMP)(Week 16 (post-intervention))
- Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Disorders - Parent (SCARED-P)(Week 16 (post-intervention))
- Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Disorders - Child (SCARED-C)(Week 16 (post-intervention))
- Symptom Impairment Scale - Parent (SIS-P)(Week 16 (post-intervention))
- Symptom Impairment Scale - Child (SIS-C)(Week 16 (post-intervention))