Motivational Interviewing as a tool to enhance access to mental health treatment in adolescents with chronic medical conditions and need for psychological support (COACH-MI)
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- cystic fibrosisEndocrinological diseasesrheumatological disordersgastroenterological diseasesE10-E14G40E84F32F41E88I00-I99Diabetes mellitusEpilepsy
- Registration Number
- DRKS00014043
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Klinik für Allgemeine Pädiatrie, Neonatologie und Kinderkardiologie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 648
Inclusion Criteria
Adolescents with chronic medical conditions will be eligible for mental health screening if they are between 12 and 20 years of age. Chronic medical conditions are defined as diseases with one or more of the following characteristics: condition duration > 1 year, which significantly impairs their daily routine and requires continuous care and/or medical treatment.
Exclusion Criteria
Participants will be excluded in cases of current regular psychotherapy utilization before the recruitment, psychosis, acute suicidality, severe intellectual disability (IQ < 70), inability to communicate (verbally or in writing) or current substance abuse (alcohol, drugs).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome is the utilization rate of psychological healthcare within six months after counselling a physician trained in motivational interviewing vs. a not-trained physician.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcomes are improvement of symptoms of anxiety and depression and treatment related parameters in the 6-months follow-up. Furthermore, the success of a short motivational interviewing education of physicians for our setting will be analysed by evaluation of the interviews. The screening results for anxiety and depression over a broad spectrum of chronic disease will be descriptively analysed.