Evaluating the Use of Theatre to Decrease Depression and Anxiety Among Adolescents With Chronic Medical Conditions (CMCs)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 撤回
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Anxiety and Depression
研究概览
简要总结
Investigators are building a program that uses improvisation to teach kids and teens with medical issues healthy ways to cope. Medical issues have been linked to anxiety and depression. Doing theatre can prevent these complications. Participants will meet in groups of about ten for ten weeks to do improvisation that is fun and supportive. Participants will meet with a study team member before the program starts, after the program ends, six months after the program ends, and twelve months after the program ends. At these visits, participants will be screened for anxiety, depression, quality of life, and will be given a short interview.
详细描述
Adolescents with chronic medical conditions are at increased risk for anxiety and depression compared to other people their age. Therapies that use role-play prevent anxiety and depression. However, often these studies do not have an underlying psychological framework, or there is not enough information to replicate the program. Investigators designed an intervention using role-play based on Integrative Community Therapy, developed in the 1980s by Dr. Adalberto Barreto. This program will help adolescents with chronic medical conditions explore their feelings about issues related to having a chronic condition, learn new coping strategies, and help one another find support among peers.
This treatment will take place once a week for 10 weeks and investigators will compare the effects to those derived from improvisational theatre alone. To evaluate this new treatment, the study team will screen participants for anxiety, depression, quality of life, and will give a short qualitative interview. This will occur before and after the intervention, 6 months after the intervention, and 1 year after the intervention.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
The participants will not know which group they are in, as they will not be familiar with the particular procedure of the intervention being studied
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 5 Years 至 19 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Identify as having a CMC
- •In grades kindergarten to 12th grade during the year recruited for the study
- •5 years of age and ≤ 19 years of age at the start of the intervention
- •Able and willing to participate in improvisational theatre in spoken English
- •Able to understand and answer standard questionnaires used for evaluation in English (with or without accommodation)
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Anxiety and Depression
时间窗: Baseline to 12 months
Anxiety and Depression as evaluated by the Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale; Scored 0-30; higher score indicates worse outcome
Empathy
时间窗: Baseline to 12 months
Empathy as evaluated by Qualitative Interview
Knowledge and Utilization of Coping Strategies
时间窗: Baseline to 12 months
Knowledge and Utilization of Coping Strategies as evaluated by Qualitative Interview
Disease-Related Quality of Life
时间窗: Baseline to 12 months
Disease-Related Quality of Life as evaluated by Qualitative Interview
次要结局
未报告次要终点