Psychological Stepped Care for Anxious Adolescents in Community Mental Health Services: A Pilot Effectiveness Trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Anxiety; Mental Health - Anxiety; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12620000653965
• Lead Sponsor: Macquarie University

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Completion: 2020-04-19
• Study Start: 2020-06-05
• Last Update Posted: 26 October 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 56

Inclusion Criteria

Aged 12 years to 18 years.
Assessed by clinicians at the participating Child & Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS) and HeadSpace sites. Participants determined to have a clinically relevant anxiety problem as their main interfering problem via the usual clinical assessment processes.

Exclusion Criteria

Primary clinical problem that is not anxiety. e.g. depression, psychosis.
Current self-harm, active suicidal risk,bipolar disorder, psychosis, unsafe family circumstance, and insufficient literacy as determine by usual intake procedures

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in anxiety symptom severity on the Clinical Global Impressions Scale - Severity (clinician reported)[Final treatment session. Due to the nature of these health services and the participant population in which participants can stop attending appointments prematurely (e.g. circumstances change, symptoms improve, get help elsewhere), we collected session by session data. The data for the final session attended by the participant was recorded as the final treatment session. ]