Video-visit Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Youth

San Diego State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Brief Behavioral Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05417412

R56MH125159

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project focuses on adapting and pilot testing an efficacious brief behavioral therapy (STEP-UP) for youths with anxiety or depression to be delivered as a telehealth intervention by clinic staff in low-resource community health centers (CHCs).

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Youth is a patient at a participating community health center (CHC) site
• Youth is clinically referred by a provider and / or has anxiety and / or depression as a diagnosis or target problem in their medical record
• Youth is in the physical and legal custody of the caretaker and is not currently involved in the foster care system
• Youth is able and willing to conduct study assessments and intervention sessions in English
• Primary caretaker is able and willing to conduct study assessments and intervention sessions in English or in Spanish
• Youth is functioning at or above the academic level of a typical 8-year-old child (i.e., placed in at least the second-grade level school across all subjects in a general education classroom)
• Primary caretaker agrees that focusing on anxiety and / or depression would be a useful primary target for treatment
• Youth has clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and / or depression by youth or caretaker report

Exclusion criteria

• Youth is receiving an alternate intervention for anxiety or depression
• Youth or parent reports that the youth is experiencing active suicidal ideation with plan or intent (i.e., within last three months) and / or has made a suicide attempt within the last six months
• Youth or parent reports that the youth is currently engaging in non-suicidal self-injury (i.e., within last three months)
• Youth or parent reports that the youth has experienced recent physical or sexual abuse (i.e., within last three months).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

STEP-UP (brief behavioral therapy)

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention arm of open trial

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief Behavioral Therapy