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- Clinical Trial NCT01915160
Technology-Based Tools to Enhance Quality of Care in Mental Health Treatment
September 29, 2016 updated by: Medical University of South Carolina
Nearly 9 million U.S. children (1 in 8) meet criteria for at least one mental health disorder at any point in time.
Effective treatments exist for these disorders, but children and families who seek services rarely receive them; mental health providers need more support in the delivery of these interventions to ensure that children and families are receiving the best quality care.
This project aims to improve the delivery of best practices for families who seek mental health care by developing creative, technology-based resources for providers.
Once we have completed development of the tablet-based resources, we will conduct a small randomized study with 20 families to examine the feasibility and prepare for a large study to test the effectiveness of the resources.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Efficacious treatments exist for a wide range of psychiatric disorders, but these treatments rarely are delivered with high fidelity in mental health service settings.
Research is needed to ensure that these treatments become more accessible in day-to-day clinical care.
Innovative, low-cost approaches are essential, particularly in settings where resources are limited.
Technological advances have made possible the development of low-cost and highly efficient (i.e., minimal time burden to providers) resources that can be delivered via internet, tablets, Smartphone, and other technologies to improve quality of care.
Research is needed to inform these efforts and evaluate the feasibility and utility of this approach.
Widespread availability of technology-based resources may represent an important step toward making evidence-based treatment more accessible to children and adults if research supports their utility.
Our research team has led the development and evaluation of several e-health and e-learning tools for patients and providers.
This has positioned us well to develop and rigorously evaluate a technology-based toolkit to enhance providers' delivery of evidence-based treatment.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), an empirically supported treatment for children with posttraumatic stress reactions, is widely used by community providers and is ideal for testing the use of technology-based resources because the protocol addresses multiple symptom domains as well as both children and caregivers.
We propose to develop and examine the feasibility of a technology-based toolkit for TF-CBT (e-TFCBT) that is designed to enhance the quality, accessibility, and efficacy of treatment.
The toolkit will consist of web-based applications that are optimized for use on mobile devices.
We conducted an interview of 21 nationally certified trainers in TF-CBT to guide an initial list of resources that are intended to address known problems with fidelity and engagement.
Providers will use most of these resources in session to maximize fidelity and enhance child engagement and learning.
The resources will be alpha-tested with families and providers and then beta-tested with providers; qualitative data will be used to guide refinements to the toolkit.
We will then conduct a feasibility trial with 20 families.
Results will provide valuable preliminary data in preparation for a randomized controlled trial to examine the additive benefits of web-accessible resources that assist providers in high-fidelity delivery of evidence-based care.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
20
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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South Carolina
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Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 294258908
- Medical University of SC
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
8 years to 15 years (Child)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- victim of at least one potentially traumatic event (e.g. sexual/physical assault, witnessed violence, disaster, serious accident)
- have at least one symptom on each PTSD symptom cluster (re-experiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal)
Exclusion Criteria:
- exhibits psychotic symptoms (active hallucinations, delusions, impaired thought processes) by caregiver or child
- significant cognitive disabilities, developmental delays, or pervasive developmental disorder
- active suicidal or homicidal ideations
- no consistent caregiver available to participate
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: treatment as usual
Trauma Focused- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
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Treatment as usual.
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Experimental: tablet assisted therapy toolkit
electronically assisted Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (eTF-CBT)
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Standard treatment with the edition of in-treatment/session iPad activities.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Child Involvement Ratings Scale
Time Frame: post-treatment; will be assessed throughout the course of treatment (expected to be 12-20 weeks in duration for each participant)
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Child engagement will be measured via coding of audiotaped sessions by independent, trained raters who are blind to study purpose and hypotheses.
The Child Involvement Ratings Scale (CIRS), a 6-item scale that measures child engagement for each session, will be used.
Four "positive" involvement items and two "negative" involvement items are rated for each session on a 6-point scale ("not at all" to "a great deal" present).
The positive-involvement items emphasize the extent to which children initiate discussions, demonstrate enthusiasm, self-disclose, and demonstrate understanding.
Negative-involvement items address withdrawal or avoidance in treatment.
Coders provide ratings based on two 10-min segments of session audiotapes (beginning at min 10 and min 40).
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post-treatment; will be assessed throughout the course of treatment (expected to be 12-20 weeks in duration for each participant)
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Treatment Adherence Checklist-Revised
Time Frame: post-treatment; will be assessed throughout the course of treatment; an expected duration of 12-20 weeks
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Fidelity to the TF-CBT protocol will be measured via coding of audiotaped treatment sessions by independent, trained raters who are blind to study purpose and hypotheses.
Ratings will be completed using the Treatment Adherence Checklist-Revised, a behaviorally specific checklist of TF-CBT provider behavior that we have modified for the current study to ensure relevance to the eTF-CBT condition.
This checklist will be used to calculate providers' fidelity to each TF-CBT component.
An additional 8 items focus on general therapy skills, not specific to TF-CBT, including establishing an agenda, providing a treatment rationale, and assigning homework.
Additional items were created to identify use of eTF-CBT tools to differentiate the two treatment conditions.
Two independent raters will listen to tape-recorded treatment session tapes and complete the modified TAC-R to code the presence/absence of specific treatment techniques depicted on the tapes.
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post-treatment; will be assessed throughout the course of treatment; an expected duration of 12-20 weeks
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Age Children - Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL PTSD module)
Time Frame: 12-20 weeks
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This is a semi-structured interview that is well-established and widely used.
It has been used in numerous TF-CBT RCTs.
We also will assess functional impairment in school, social, and family life using the K-SADS-PL instrument.
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12-20 weeks
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Kenneth J Ruggiero, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
Publications and helpful links
The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.
General Publications
- Davidson TM, Bunnell BE, Saunders BE, Hanson RF, Danielson CK, Cook D, Chu BC, Dorsey S, Adams ZW, Andrews AR 3rd, Walker JH, Soltis KE, Cohen JA, Deblinger E, Ruggiero KJ. Pilot Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Application to Improve Quality of Care in Child Mental Health Treatment. Behav Ther. 2019 Mar;50(2):367-379. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2018.07.005. Epub 2018 Jul 27.
- Ruggiero KJ, Bunnell BE, Andrews Iii AR, Davidson TM, Hanson RF, Danielson CK, Saunders BE, Soltis K, Yarian C, Chu B, Adams ZW. Development and Pilot Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Application to Improve Quality of Care in Child Mental Health Treatment. JMIR Res Protoc. 2015 Dec 30;4(4):e143. doi: 10.2196/resprot.4416.
Study record dates
These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.
Study Major Dates
Study Start
November 1, 2013
Primary Completion (Actual)
January 1, 2016
Study Completion (Actual)
August 1, 2016
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
July 1, 2013
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
August 1, 2013
First Posted (Estimate)
August 2, 2013
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
September 30, 2016
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 29, 2016
Last Verified
August 1, 2012
More Information
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 1R34MH096907-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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