Chicago Urban Resiliency Building (CURB)

Benjamin Van Voorhees, MD, MPH

Status: Completed

Conditions: Major Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: CURB

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01571011

RWJF 68177

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a culturally tailored, low-cost, primary care/internet based depression prevention intervention (CURB) is superior to wait-list control for African American and Hispanic youth in terms of depression-related outcomes. It is hypothesized that compared to teens in the wait-list control condition, teens in the CURB program will exhibit lower levels of depressed mood and/or more rapid changes in mood during the follow-up time.

Full description

Additional aims and hypotheses are provided here:

Aim 2: To determine whether or not participants in the CURB primary care/Internet based depression prevention intervention will have a significantly lower cumulative incidence of any depressive episode at 3 months compared to adolescents in the usual care wait-list group.

Hypothesis 2: Compared to youth in the wait-list control condition, youth in the CURB program will have a lower incidence of depressive episodes at 6 month follow-up.

Aim 3: To determine whether CURB is sustainable in primary care from the perspective of health care professionals and primary care physicians in urban primary care settings.

Hypothesis 3: We hypothesize that providers will rate the intervention (by component) feasibility, acceptability, willingness to perform intervention and sustainability > 7 on a 1-10 scale (1, not feasible, 10 very feasible).

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adolescents:

• Male and female African American and Latino/a youth ages 13 -17 years old.
• Adolescents with depressed mood (> 2 weeks duration) will be eligible unless they have already exceeded the diagnostic threshold for major depressive disorder or have a comorbid condition as defined in the exclusion criteria.

Parents:

• Parent of eligible adolescents

Primary Care Physicians (PCPs):

• Physician at one of the four Mile Square Health Centers.

Health Care Professionals:

• Employee at one of the four Mile Square Health Centers.

Exclusion criteria

• Adolescents undergoing active treatment for depression [Active treatment for depression is defined as receiving anti-depressant medication or counseling within one year of remission of symptoms from the most recent episode]
• Adolescents meeting probable diagnostic criteria for the following: Major depression, Substance and alcohol abuse, Panic attacks, Generalized anxiety disorder, Eating disorders, History of treatment for bi-polar disorder or schizophrenia or who are at elevated risk for suicide (often have suicidal thoughts or recent intent)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

CURB Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention is made up of 14 internet modules based on behavioral activation, cognitive behavioral therapy, and interpersonal psychotherapy as well as motivational interviews in the primary care setting (to enhance behavior change). It is suggested that an adolescent navigates through 2 modules a week. The motivational interviews with the physicians occur directly before and after the adolescent is exposed to the website (at baseline and 3 months) in the providers office. The parents of the enrolled adolescents are also invited to navigate through their own, 3 module, parent internet program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CURB

CURB Intervention (Wait List)

Experimental group

Description:

Same as the CURB Intervention arm, however, individuals assigned to this arm wait 3 months before receiving the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CURB