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NCT Number: NCT03985813

Screening Wizard, Component 1 of iCHART (Integrated Care to Help At-Risk Teens)-Feasibility/Pilot Phase

Screening Wizard (SW). Primary Care Providers (PCPs) are often uncertain about how to best refer adolescents who screen positive for depression or suicidality. Screen-positive youth who are either not in treatment, or express dissatisfaction with current treatment will be consented by an on-site research assistant (RA). Those parents and patients receiving SW will answer additional questions: adaptive screens developed in a previous NIMH study (MH100155) for suicidal risk, anxiety, and mania; perceived barriers; and preferences about treatment. SW generates recommendations for PCPs reflecting patient clinical needs and preferences.

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Key information

Conditions

Depression Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Self-Injurious Behavior Suicidal Ideation Suicide

Age range

12 year–26 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Children's Community Pediatrics (CCP-Bass Wolfson Cranberry) of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, United States

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About this study

Screening Wizard will be delivered by Primary Care Providers (PCPs) at well child visits, beginning with screening occurring within the waiting room which will yield decision support guidance delivered and followed by the PCP at that same visit.

This study utilized an open trial design. A stepped wedge design was originally proposed and efforts were made to adhere to this study design, however after a year of low recruitment and resultant recruitment sites pulling out the of the study, the overall study design was changed to an open trial. Additional recruitment sites were onboarded to the study and provided with the intervention arm in order to obtain feasibility data on the intervention components of the study. For reference a stepped wedge design involves the sequential random rollout of an intervention over two time periods. Following a baseline period in which no clusters (=practices) are exposed to the intervention, the crossover is typically in one direction, from control to intervention and continues until both of the clusters have crossed-over to receive the intervention, with observations taken from each cluster and at each time period.

Hypothesis: The use of Screening Wizard will increase the rate of personalized referrals experts in specialty mental health would provide, compared to Treatment as usual (TAU).

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Youth aged 12-26 yo
  • Biological or adoptive parent is willing to provide informed consent for teen to participate
  • Youth speaks and understands English

Exclusion criteria

  • Non English speaking
  • No parent willing to provide informed consent
  • Is currently experiencing acute mania or psychosis, evidence of an intellectual or developmental disorder (IDD), life threatening medical condition that requires immediate treatment, or other cognitive or medical condition preventing youth from understanding study and/or participating.

Treatment and study plan

Screening Wizard

Behavioral

Screening Wizard is a decision support tool to guide the primary care provider to make a referral that reflects patient clinical needs and patient and parental treatment preferences and perceived barriers to treatment.

Primary outcomes

  1. Personalized Referral

    Time frame: Baseline (in office) visit

    The rate of personalized referrals by primary care providers and treatment initiation among adolescents who screen positive for depression or suicidal ideation will be monitored to determine if provider made referral as recommended on intervention report.

    This initial outcome has been modified as a result of the changes in study design.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of Participants Who Utilized the Screening Wizard Application

    Time frame: Baseline (phone) visit

    Use of the technical components of Screening Wizard will be monitored. Utilization will be measured by the number and proportion of adolescents, parents, and providers who have engaged with the application over time.

  2. Service Use (Number of Participants at Baseline)

    Time frame: At Baseline phone visit

    The Child and Adolescent Service Assessment (CASA) will collect service utilization of all participants to determine the amount of services accessed in each treatment arm.

  3. Service Use (Number of Participants at 4 Week Follow-up)

    Time frame: Week 4 follow-up after Baseline

    The Child and Adolescent Service Assessment (CASA) will collect service utilization of all participants to determine the amount of services accessed in each treatment arm.

  4. Service Use (Number of Participants at 12 Week Follow-up)

    Time frame: Week 12 follow up after Baseline

    The Child and Adolescent Service Assessment (CASA) will collect service utilization of all participants to determine the amount of services accessed in each treatment arm.

  5. Usability & Satisfaction

    Time frame: At exit interview after Baseline phone visit. The baseline visit occurs 24-48 hours after initial screening and the exit interview call will be made within 1 month following the completion of the baseline phone assessment.

    Satisfaction to Screening Wizard will be assessed through a question developed by investigators to understand experience with the program. The question investigators have adapted from literature reviews on satisfaction is: "If a friend were in need of a mental health referral, would you recommend Screening Wizard to him/her? The response options include: No, definitely not; No, I don't think so; Yes, I think so; Yes, definitely.

  6. Usability & Satisfaction

    Time frame: At exit interview after Baseline phone visit. The baseline visit occurs 24-48 hours after initial screening and the exit interview call will be made within 1 month following the completion of the baseline phone assessment.

    Satisfaction with the technical components of interventions will be assessed through certain questions from the Post System Satisfaction and Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ). The PSSUQ is 19 items with response options ranging from 1 to 7 where 1=strongly disagree and 7=strongly agree. The PSSUQ has sub-scores derived from subsets of the questions which reflect system usefulness, information quality, and interface quality. Questions from sub-domains were chosen to tailor the questioning to this particular intervention. Another question about the need to learn new things before using the app was asked to be rated on a 1-5 scale, with 1= strongly disagree and 5= strongly agree.

  7. Cost Analysis: Cost of Screening Wizard Intervention at Baseline

    Time frame: At Baseline

    An overall average of the cost of implementing the Screening Wizard intervention (including labor, equipment, supplies, facilitates) will be estimated at Baseline.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Pittsburgh

Other

Collaborators

  • Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Jun 14, 2019
Registry last updated
Jul 15, 2022

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