Web-based Intervention for Disaster-Affected Youth and Families

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Behavioral: Bounce Back Now Website

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01606514

1R01MH081056-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

A single disaster, terrorist attack, or other large-scale incident can adversely affect thousands of youth and families. Immediate consequences may include unmet basic needs and high economic burden, particularly among underserved populations. Disasters also can dramatically affect family roles and relationships over time (e.g., family routines, marital stress, parent-child interactions). Whereas most youth are resilient in the aftermath of disasters (i.e., do not develop serious mental health or health-risk problems), the prevalence of various problems of public health significance (e.g., PTSD, depression, substance abuse) clearly increases in this population. This underscores the need for effective, widely accessible, culturally-appropriate and cost-efficient interventions that foster resilience or rapid recovery relative to the health effects of disasters. Yet, few evidence-informed resources are available to youth and families to facilitate post-disaster resilience and recovery. Primary aims of this project are: (a) to develop a Web-based intervention for disaster-affected adolescents and parents targeting prevalent health-related correlates of disasters (i.e., development phase), (b) to conduct a randomized controlled population-based study to examine feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the intervention (i.e., randomized controlled trial [RCT] phase) and cultural relevance (i.e., perceived applicability of the intervention to one's cultural group), and (c) to refine the intervention based on RCT-phase data.

Enrollment: 2,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adolescent between the ages of 12-17 and primary caregiver,
• residence in study identified location(s) at time of disaster,
• home internet connectivity

Exclusion criteria

• adolescent's primary caregiver not available,
• no adolescents in home,
• not residing in location at time of disaster,
• poor or no internet connectivity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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2,000 participants in 3 patient groups

Child, Parenting, & Parent Web-Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Bounce Back Now Child, Parenting, \& Parent Psychoeducation \& Self-Help Web-Intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Bounce Back Now Website

Child & Parenting Web-Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Bounce Back Now Child \& Parenting Psychoeducation and Self-Help Web-Intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Bounce Back Now Website

Child & Parent Web-based Assessment

No Intervention group

Description:

Bounce Back Now Web-Based Symptom Assessment