Improving access to psychological therapies for children with distressing sensory experiences: the feasibility and acceptability of the ChUSE trial, a novel child-focused and parent intervention

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

June 14, 2024

End Date

August 31, 2026

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•Young people and their parent/parent pair (i.e., children and parent/carer dyads) will be eligible if:
•1\. The child is aged 8\-15\-years\-old and self\-identifies as experiencing DSE: due to the current lack of sensitivity of diagnostic or clinical threshold assessments of DSEs, young people who have been referred to CAMHS will automatically be considered eligible for inclusion if they report the presence of DSEs, which will be confirmed by the MAVIC
•2\. The child is currently under the care of CAMHS
•3\. At least one parent, primary carer or legal guardian provides consent for trial participation, and in line with Health Research Authority guidance for Research Involving Children, the child provides assent for inclusion into the trial

•Children and parent/carer dyads will be excluded when:
•1\. Young people unable to engage in conversational English, as the intervention and trial assessments are currently only available in English. If a parent is unable to take part in the PTP, the young person can still engage in the young person’s ChUSE intervention.
•2\. The child experiences a mental health crisis requiring inpatient hospital admission at the time of study enrolment. The intervention is designed to be accessed as an early intervention on an outpatient basis, so those accessing inpatient CAMHS services will not be eligible for inclusion as they may have urgent clinical needs.
•3\. The child is already enrolled in another mental health clinical trial involving the provision of an active psychological treatment, as concomitant trial participation may be excessively burdensome and influence outcome assessment.