Echo: Optimizing a Group-based School Intervention for Children With Emotional Problems

Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Emotion child

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04263558

31/18

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study (Echo) will promote much needed research and innovation that optimize service provision in first line health services for the alarmingly high number of school children who suffer from clinical and subthreshold levels of anxiety and depression. The effect of different versions of an evidence-based intervention for this group of children will be tested using a cluster randomized design involving 40 schools across Norway. The aim is to create a framework that allows more evidence-based psychosocial interventions to be provided at a lower cost to society. Echo will provide knowledge about three main evidence gaps for children: (1) The effect of school-based preventive interventions on anxiety and depression; (2) The effect of feedback informed systems, and; (3) the effect and cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions using online sessions and virtual reality technology.

Enrollment: 1,364 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children scoring one standard deviation or more above population mean using established measures for anxiety and/or depression

Exclusion criteria

• Retardation or language problems
• Developmental conditions
• Individual considerations approved by the local PI

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,364 participants in 8 patient groups

LHF

Active Comparator group

Description:

Long intervention (16 sessions) High parental involvement (5 sessions) Feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child

LHN

Active Comparator group

Description:

Long intervention (16 sessions) High parental involvement (5 sessions)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child

LLF

Active Comparator group

Description:

Long intervention (16 sessions) Low parental involvement (Brochure) Feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child

LLN

Active Comparator group

Description:

Long intervention (16 sessions) Low parental involvement (Brochure)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child

SHF

Active Comparator group

Description:

Short intervention (8 sessions, group) and 8 sessions web-based High parental involvement (5 sessions) Feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child

SHN

Active Comparator group

Description:

Short intervention (8 sessions, group) and 8 sessions web-based High parental involvement (5 sessions)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child

SLF

Active Comparator group

Description:

Short intervention (8 sessions, group) and 8 sessions web-based Low parental involvement (Brochure) Feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child

SLN

Active Comparator group

Description:

Short intervention (8 sessions, group) and 8 sessions web-based Low parental involvement (Brochure)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion child