An Assessment of Voluntary Adolescent Mental Health Screening and Referral in a Children's Hospital Emergency Department

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: TeenScreen Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00750412

CCHMC 2008-0987

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the TeenScreen intervention to usual care for adolescents who screen positive for mental health problems in a pediatric emergency department. It is anticipated that adolescents receiving the TeenScreen intervention will be more likely to attend a first session of outpatient mental health services within 60 days of the initial screening than those receiving the usual care.

Enrollment: 112 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients between 11 and 17 years old
• Medically stable and presenting with a non-psychiatric complaint
• English speaking
• Parent/guardian present for consent
• Insurance coverage by Medicaid
• Hamilton County residents
• Not currently receiving mental health treatment

Exclusion criteria

• Less than 11 years or greater than 17 years old
• Parent/guardian not present at time of visit
• Medically unstable
• Non-English speaking
• Insurance other than Medicaid
• Presenting complaint is a mental health problem
• Currently receiving mental health treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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112 participants in 2 patient groups

TeenScreen

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: TeenScreen Program

Treatment As Usual

No Intervention group