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NCT Number: NCT04603235

Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression

There is a need to evaluate different interventions in order to meet young people's needs of treatment. The study's goal is to find out if manual-based art therapy is a useful method for young people with depression and thus increase the availability of methods of treatment for adolescents with depression in Child and youth psychiatry in Sweden.

The aim is to investigate whether manual-based art therapy is useful as treatment for adolescents with depression by examining feasibility, acceptability and compliant to treatment. Secondary, preliminary study of adolescent depressive symptoms, quality of life and functional level is affected by the treatment.

Method: Data from youths aged 13-17 years old and their parents will be collected with questionnaires and structured interviews. Measurements are taken before and after treatment. Acceptability and feasibility will be examined by participants' presence, drop out and cancellations and also by checking the art therapists' compliance to the manual and investigate their reasons to diverge from the manual

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Key information

Conditions

Depression Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Depressive Disorder Mental Disorders Mood Disorders

Age range

13 year–17 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Södra Älvsborgs Hospital

Borås, Västra Götaland County, 50182, Sweden

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 13-17 year
  • Depression as main diagnosis

Exclusion criteria

  • high suicide risk
  • ongoing psychosis
  • eating disorder
  • Untreated PTSD
  • Patients are excluded if there is suspicion of violence, abuse, abuse in the home or other vulnerability which requires other interventions to ensure the safety.

Treatment and study plan

Manual-based Art Therapy

Behavioral

This is a manual-based treatment and consists of 10 one-hour weekly sessions. The treatment consist of detailed guidelines based on phenomenological art therapy. The sessions follow the same structure: Introduction, short relaxation, art-making, reflections about the image, and conclusions. Examples of comprised art tasks; lifeline, emotional scribbles, and different roles. The art tasks served as a prompt for painting.

Primary outcomes

  1. Adherence to manual - therapists

    Time frame: 10 weeks

    the therapists self-rate their compliance to the manual on a 4 point Likert scale. describing reasons to adverting from manual

  2. Change of Treatment satisfaction

    Time frame: Change from baseline at 10 weeks

    Level of satisfactions rated on a 5 point Likert scale. Higher scores indicates higher satisfaction.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change of Depression with Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II

    Time frame: Change from baseline at 10 weeks

    contains 21 questions, each answer being scored on a scale value of 0 to 3. Higher score indicate more severe depression.

  2. Change of quality of life measured with KIDSCREEN-10

    Time frame: Change from baseline at 10 weeks

    Measure global Health related quality of life. HRQoL score for monitoring and screening uses. the questionnaire consist of 10 questions, each answer being scored on a 5 points Likert scale.

  3. Change of functional impairment measured with Education,Work and Social adjustment Scale EWSAS-C/P

    Time frame: Change from baseline at 10 weeks

    Is a self-reported scale to measure functional impairment attributed to an identified problem. is a five-item self-report scale measuring functional impairment on a nine-point scale. Higher rating indicating more impairment.

  4. Change of psychiatric symptoms measured with Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale /R-CADS

    Time frame: Change from baseline at 10 weeks

    47-item questionnaires that measure the reported frequency of various symptoms of anxiety and low mood. They produce a total anxiety and low mood score and separate scores for each of the follow sub-scales: separation anxiety; social phobia; generalized anxiety; panic; obsessive compulsive; total anxiety; and, low mood. Each answer being scored on a 4 points Likert scale.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Vastra Gotaland Region

Other Gov

Collaborators

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stockholm

Registry information

Official study title

Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression: a Pilot Study in Child and Youth Psychiatric Clinic in Sweden

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Oct 26, 2020
Registry last updated
Oct 26, 2020

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