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NCT Number: NCT04263558

Echo: Optimizing a Group-based School Intervention for Children With Emotional Problems

The present study (Echo) will promote much needed research and innovation that optimize service provision in first line health services for the alarmingly high number of school children who suffer from clinical and subthreshold levels of anxiety and depression. The effect of different versions of an evidence-based intervention for this group of children will be tested using a cluster randomized design involving 40 schools across Norway. The aim is to create a framework that allows more evidence-based psychosocial interventions to be provided at a lower cost to society. Echo will provide knowledge about three main evidence gaps for children: (1) The effect of school-based preventive interventions on anxiety and depression; (2) The effect of feedback informed systems, and; (3) the effect and cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions using online sessions and virtual reality technology.

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Key information

Conditions

Anxiety Depression

Age range

8 year–12 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse, Oslo, Norway

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Children scoring one standard deviation or more above population mean using established measures for anxiety and/or depression

Exclusion criteria

  • Retardation or language problems
  • Developmental conditions
  • Individual considerations approved by the local PI

Treatment and study plan

Emotion child

Behavioral

The MFS will include an idiographic measure of personal aims, symptom burden, displayed on a visual data dashboard to guide further intervention. The EMOTION intervention for children 9 to 12 years with symptoms of anxiety and/or depression will be used in a standard/long version (16 sessions) and a short (8 sessions) but optimized version, using a partial web-based solution with virtual reality (VR)-technology for behavioral experiments and exposure (in short and long version). Parental involvement: Parental participation in a 5-session parent group (high involvement) versus sharing information with parents via a brochure (low Parental involvement).

Other names: Measurement Feedback System (MFS), Emotion parent

Primary outcomes

  1. Multidimensional Anxiety Scale

    Time frame: Time 1 baseline

    Anxiety symptoms, minimum 0 to maximum 117, high score indicates worse outcome

  2. Multidimensional Anxiety Scale

    Time frame: Time 2 after approximal 10 weeks

    Anxiety symptoms, minimum 0 to maximum 117, high score indicates worse outcome

  3. Multidimensional Anxiety Scale

    Time frame: Time 3 after approximal 1 year

    Anxiety symptoms, minimum 0 to maximum 117, high score indicates worse outcome

  4. Mood and Feeling Questionnaire

    Time frame: Time 1 baseline

    Depression symptoms, minimum 0 to maximum 26, high score indicates worse outcome

  5. Mood and Feeling Questionnaire

    Time frame: Time 2 after approximal 10 weeks

    Depression symptoms, minimum 0 to maximum 26, high score indicates worse outcome

  6. Mood and Feeling Questionnaire

    Time frame: Time 3 after approximal one year

    Depression symptoms, minimum 0 to maximum 26, high score indicates worse outcome

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse

Other

Collaborators

  • Technical University of Trondheim
  • University of Tromso

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2020
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Feb 11, 2020
Registry last updated
Nov 29, 2023

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