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Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Depression
Depressive Disorder
Interventions
Behavioral: Manual-based Art Therapy
Registration Number
NCT04603235
Lead Sponsor
Vastra Gotaland Region
Brief Summary

There is a need to evaluate different interventions in order to meet young people's needs of treatment. The study's goal is to find out if manual-based art therapy is a useful method for young people with depression and thus increase the availability of methods of treatment for adolescents with depression in Child and youth psychiatry in Sweden.

The aim is to investigate whether manual-based art therapy is useful as treatment for adolescents with depression by examining feasibility, acceptability and compliant to treatment. Secondary, preliminary study of adolescent depressive symptoms, quality of life and functional level is affected by the treatment.

Method: Data from youths aged 13-17 years old and their parents will be collected with questionnaires and structured interviews. Measurements are taken before and after treatment. Acceptability and feasibility will be examined by participants' presence, drop out and cancellations and also by checking the art therapists' compliance to the manual and investigate their reasons to diverge from the manual

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
10
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age 13-17 year
  • Depression as main diagnosis
Exclusion Criteria
  • high suicide risk
  • ongoing psychosis
  • eating disorder
  • Untreated PTSD
  • Patients are excluded if there is suspicion of violence, abuse, abuse in the home or other vulnerability which requires other interventions to ensure the safety.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
InterventionManual-based Art TherapyThis is a quasi-experimental study
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Adherence to manual - therapists10 weeks

the therapists self-rate their compliance to the manual on a 4 point Likert scale. describing reasons to adverting from manual

Change of Treatment satisfactionChange from baseline at 10 weeks

Level of satisfactions rated on a 5 point Likert scale. Higher scores indicates higher satisfaction.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change of Depression with Beck Depression Inventory BDI-IIChange from baseline at 10 weeks

contains 21 questions, each answer being scored on a scale value of 0 to 3. Higher score indicate more severe depression.

Change of quality of life measured with KIDSCREEN-10Change from baseline at 10 weeks

Measure global Health related quality of life. HRQoL score for monitoring and screening uses. the questionnaire consist of 10 questions, each answer being scored on a 5 points Likert scale.

Change of functional impairment measured with Education,Work and Social adjustment Scale EWSAS-C/PChange from baseline at 10 weeks

Is a self-reported scale to measure functional impairment attributed to an identified problem. is a five-item self-report scale measuring functional impairment on a nine-point scale. Higher rating indicating more impairment.

Change of psychiatric symptoms measured with Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale /R-CADSChange from baseline at 10 weeks

47-item questionnaires that measure the reported frequency of various symptoms of anxiety and low mood. They produce a total anxiety and low mood score and separate scores for each of the follow sub-scales: separation anxiety; social phobia; generalized anxiety; panic; obsessive compulsive; total anxiety; and, low mood. Each answer being scored on a 4 points Likert scale.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Södra Älvsborgs Hospital

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Borås, Västra Götaland, Sweden

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