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ACEs Referral From PED

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Emory University

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Treatments

Behavioral: Telehealth therapy
Behavioral: In-person therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06574633
STUDY00008134

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic exposures that can cause many negative health impacts across life. ACEs are common in patients who seek out care in pediatric emergency departments (PEDs); this is an opportunity to connect families with mental health resources to mitigate the effects of ACEs and improve lifelong health. The goal of this study is to determine if children with high ACEs have better rates of follow-up with mental health resources when a telehealth option is provided, as previous research has shown that simply making an in-person follow-up appointment is not very helpful.

Full description

Children 12-17 years old who are receiving care in a PED and their legal guardians will fill out a tablet-based electronic consent/assent and survey that takes no longer than 10 minutes to complete while waiting for treatment once they are in a private patient room. The study team will review the responses to identify children with ACE scores 2 or higher and contact the family to help them arrange therapy services. Patients will be randomized to in-person versus telehealth therapy. A few months after enrollment, the study team will contact the family and mental health team to find out if the family was able to keep their appointment to start mental health treatment. This will aid future research to identify if and how mental health treatment impacts these patients over the following years.

Enrollment

200 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

12 to 17 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients aged 12-17 years seen in the PED who read and speak English

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients already enrolled in outpatient therapy resources,
  • Critically ill patients
  • Patients with significant developmental delays impeding their ability to participate in therapy.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

200 participants in 2 patient groups

In-person therapy
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Behavioral: In-person therapy
Telehealth
Experimental group
Treatment:
Behavioral: Telehealth therapy

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Karli S. Okeson, DO

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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