Youth PHP Pilot Transdiagnostic Treatment Implementation and Effectiveness Study (PHP TIES)

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emotional Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04792151

20-2566

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine patient effectiveness outcomes of a transdiagnostic treatment for youth emotional disorders, implemented in a partial hospitalization program (PHP). Participants will be youth between ages 6 to 17 and their families, as well as clinicians, participating in the PHP program at Children's Hospital Colorado. Additionally, the research team will study modifications to the transdiagnostic intervention that are required to feasibly and effectively deliver it in a PHP setting.

Enrollment: 304 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for patient participant involves:

• youth between the ages of 6 and 17
• participation in treatment in the Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO) PHP program
• presence of at least one caregiver available and willing to participate in the study.

Inclusion criteria for clinician participants involves:

--psychologist, licensed master's-level clinician (i.e., "behavioral health clinician"), or unlicensed "behavioral health specialist" providing clinical services through the CHCO Partial Hospitalization Program during the period of study enrollment

Exclusion criteria

Patients will be excluded from the study if:

• they are a ward of the state
• are not enrolled in the Children's Hospital Colorado PHP program.

Clinicians will be excluded from the study if:

--they are not providing clinical services through the Children's Hospital Colorado PHP program

Trial design

304 participants in 1 patient group

PHP Youth

Description:

Youth ages 6-17 receiving standard of care treatment (i.e., transdiagnostic intervention for emotional disorders) in a partial hospitalization program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents