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Completed

• Conditions: Behavioural, Emotional, and Psychosocial Problems
• Interventions: Other: Assert

• Registration Number: NCT03014596
• Lead Sponsor: Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse

Brief Summary

Procedures for systematic user involvement in primary mental health services are lacking, and several adolescents are dissatisfied with their opportunities to influence the service provided. The research on the effects of user involvement is scarce, especially regarding user involvement for children and adolescents. Hence, we suggest introducing an idiographic assessment tool in a selection of Norwegian primary mental health services. Idiographic assessment is a way of measuring psychological constructs, by using tools specifically adapted for each individual respondent.

This protocol describes the implementation and evaluation of a user involvement tool called 'Assert', in Norwegian primary mental health services. Assert is a simple tool where the adolescents themselves decide the goals or themes that they would like to address in collaboration with their service provider. Assert is scored each time the adolescent and the service provider meet, to monitor progress toward the goal. A randomised controlled trial design is proposed for this study. Assert will be implemented in 5-10 Norwegian municipalities, and will include 250 participants between 12 and 23 years. The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between Assert and perceived user involvement. Are idiographic measures an adequate way to operationalise user involvement on an individual level? And if so, can user involvement (i.e. Assert) have an effect on quality of life and mental health in adolescents? And lastly qualitative analyses of the adolescents' themes and goals will be conducted to explore what matters to the adolescents that visit primary mental health services in Norwegian municipalities.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-01
• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-01-05
• Study First Posted: 2017-01-09
• Primary Completion: 2018-06
• Study Completion: 2018-06
• Status Verified: 2020-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-02-07
• Last Update Posted: 2020-02-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

• Adolescents between 12 and 23 years, with behavioural, emotional, and psychosocial problems

Exclusion Criteria

• severe psychopathological disorders
• severe drug addiction
• intellectual disabilities

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Assert	The Assert-method will be used in the counselling of adolescents with mental health problems

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)	One year
Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC)	One year
Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents (ILC)	One year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
User involvement questionnaire	One year	Perceived degree of user involvement
The Assert measurement tool	One year	An ideographic assessment and monitoring tool, used as a part of the Assert method

Trial Locations

Locations (11)

Ringerike kommune; 🇳🇴 Hønefoss, Norway

Skedsmo kommune; 🇳🇴 Lillestrøm, Norway

UngArena; 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway

Våler kommune; 🇳🇴 Våler, Norway

Nome kommune; 🇳🇴 Ulefoss, Norway

Ål kommune; 🇳🇴 Ål, Norway

Eidsberg Kommune; 🇳🇴 Mysen, Norway

Kongsberg kommune; 🇳🇴 Kongsberg, Norway

Bydel Søndre Nordstrand; 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway

Familiehuset Adler; 🇳🇴 Tønsberg, Norway

Lørenskog kommune; 🇳🇴 Lørenskog, Norway