EMA Baseline Screening System for Therapists Who Treat Youths With Depressive Symptoms

NCT ID: NCT04830527

Last Updated: 2022-05-23

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-11-24

Study Completion Date

2021-11-30

Brief Summary

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Youth depression is a matter of concern worldwide. It affects an important part of the young population around the world and its consequences both physically and mentally make this issue an important research field for psychologists and other health related professionals (Zuckerbrot, Cheung, Jensen, Stein \& Laraque, 2018). Two of the biggest challenges that clinicians and researchers face when dealing with youth depression are adherence and the establishment of a therapeutic alliance (TA; Nock \& Ferriter, 2005). While several treatments are available to relief depressive symptomatology in youths, a significant number do not access them for a variety of reasons (DiMatteo, Lepper \& Corgan, 2000). In the last decades, substantial research has been conducted on how youths and the general population perceive therapy, and different methods have been developed to assess clients and therapists in order to improve outcomes and other aspects of the psychotherapy process, such as feedback tools and real-time measurements like Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) (Shiffman, et al., 2008). With the aid of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and eMental Health strategies, feedback and assessment tools can be presented in a friendly manner, providing a novel way to possibly improving adherence rates and TA scores. This study aims to develop and test the effectiveness of an Ecological Momentary Assessment mobile application to improve initial adherence and TA in psychotherapy for youths with depression.

The hypotheses for this trial are:

1. Applying an EMA baseline screening application one week before the beginning of treatment for youth depression will significantly improve the TA.
2. Applying an EMA baseline screening application one week before the beginning of treatment for youth depression will significantly improve initial adherence.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Depressive Symptoms

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SCREENING

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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Intervention group

Patients in experimental group will receive EMA prompts. Therapists in this group will receive a summarized PDF report before the beginning of the first psychotherapy session. The report will include graphic summarized data from the EMA prompts.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

EMA prompting for patients

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

EMA prompting will consist of the delivery of the PHQ-4 and PANAS questionnaires, as well as basic identification, therapy motivations and expectations, location, current activity and social interactions.

These prompts will be presented to patients during a 7 day period, 5 times per day.

PDF Reports for therapists

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

After the patients' EMA data is collected, a previously designed R script will summarize and transform the data into a brief and graphic report for therapists in the experimental arm of the study. These reports are intended to provide detailed information about the patients' mood, anxiety levels, positive and negative affects, as well as crossed data such as mood according to location, anxiety according to activity, etc.

Control group

Patients in control group will receive the EMA prompts in the same manner as patients in the experimental group.

Therapists in this group will not receive the PDF reports, and instead will get raw scores from a screening evaluation conducted with patients in the recruitment phase of the study.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

EMA prompting for patients

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

EMA prompting will consist of the delivery of the PHQ-4 and PANAS questionnaires, as well as basic identification, therapy motivations and expectations, location, current activity and social interactions.

These prompts will be presented to patients during a 7 day period, 5 times per day.

Interventions

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EMA prompting for patients

EMA prompting will consist of the delivery of the PHQ-4 and PANAS questionnaires, as well as basic identification, therapy motivations and expectations, location, current activity and social interactions.

These prompts will be presented to patients during a 7 day period, 5 times per day.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

PDF Reports for therapists

After the patients' EMA data is collected, a previously designed R script will summarize and transform the data into a brief and graphic report for therapists in the experimental arm of the study. These reports are intended to provide detailed information about the patients' mood, anxiety levels, positive and negative affects, as well as crossed data such as mood according to location, anxiety according to activity, etc.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Owning a mobile phone with permanent access to the internet,
* Scoring from eleven to nineteen points in the PHQ-9 questionnaire.
* Having completed the eighth grade of basic education.


\- Having 1 or more years of clinical experience.

Exclusion Criteria

* Being diagnosed with Depression with psychotic symptoms,
* Having a depressive episode as part of a bipolar disorder diagnosis
* Having suicidal thoughts and/or behaviour as measured by the PHQ-9 and evaluated by the physician.
* Alcohol and/or substance abuse.


* Having less than 1 year of clinical experience.
* Having participated in the design of PDF reports.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

24 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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ANID - Millennium Science Initiative Program - NCS17_03 Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago, Chile

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Center for Psychotherapy Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Vania Martínez-Nahuel

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Vania Martínez-Nahuel

Dr.

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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CEMERA, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

Site Status

Countries

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Chile

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Other Identifiers

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030-2020

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Identifier Source: org_study_id

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