Multi-family Therapy and School Refusal: an Exploratory Study With Adolescents and Their Families (Multi-Fast)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: School Phobia

Treatments: Behavioral: Multi-family therapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05432323

2021-A01853-38 (Other Identifier)

APHP211594

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether multi-family therapy is effective in the treatment of school refusal with anxiety in adolescence.

Full description

Anxious school refusal in adolescence is a major public health problem. The involvement of families is essential and multi-family therapy has shown its effectiveness for many mental disorders. This study aims to explore the benefit of multi-family therapy in the care of anxious school refusal in adolescence.

The method will be qualitative with phenomenological analysis of semi-structured interviews with adolescents and their parents and quantitative with a SCED design to assess the evolution of the level of anxiety of adolescents and parents, as well as personalized objectives.

The objective is therefore to improve the care of adolescents with anxious school refusal.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Families with an adolescent
• Aged 12 to 18
• Totally out of school for more than 2 consecutive weeks and less than 18 months
• Follow-up at the Maison de Solenn-Maison des Adolescents (Cochin Hospital AP-HP) for a school refusal
• Having agreed to participate in a multi-family therapy
• Domiciliation in Ile de France
• Agreement of the parents and the adolescent to participate in the study: Collection of the non-opposition of non-emancipated minors and their legal representatives

Exclusion criteria

• any family situation that makes it impossible to bring parents and children together in family therapy
• patient under curatorship or tutorship
• patient with AME (french State Medical Aid)

Trial design

74 participants in 2 patient groups

Adolescents

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multi-family therapy

Parents

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multi-family therapy