An Assessment of Voluntary Adolescent Mental Health Screening and Referral in a Children's Hospital Emergency Department

This study is currently recruiting participants.

Verified by Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, April 2009

First Received: September 9, 2008 Last Updated: April 7, 2009 History of Changes

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Columbia University
Information provided by:	Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00750412

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to compare the TeenScreen intervention to usual care for adolescents who screen positive for mental health problems in a pediatric emergency department. It is anticipated that adolescents receiving the TeenScreen intervention will be more likely to attend a first session of outpatient mental health services within 60 days of the initial screening than those receiving the usual care.

Condition	Intervention
Mental Health	Behavioral: TeenScreen Program

MedlinePlus related topics: Child Mental Health Mental Health

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Open Label, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	An Assessment of Voluntary Adolescent Mental Health Screening and Referral in a Children's Hospital Emergency Department

Further study details as provided by Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Verified mental health service use through clinical administrative data [ Time Frame: 60 days after the initial mental health screening ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Measurement of depressive symptoms and impairment of functioning utilizing the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depressions Scale and Sheehan Disability Score [ Time Frame: 60 days after the initial mental health screening ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment:	112
Study Start Date:	March 2009
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	September 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
TeenScreen: Experimental	Behavioral: TeenScreen Program Adolescents who are randomized into the TeenScreen program and their parent/guardian will receive post-screening information, a facilitated referral, and case management services from a research social worker.
Treatment As Usual: No Intervention

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	11 Years to 17 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients between 11 and 17 years old
Medically stable and presenting with a non-psychiatric complaint
English speaking
Parent/guardian present for consent
Insurance coverage by Medicaid
Hamilton County residents
Not currently receiving mental health treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

Less than 11 years or greater than 17 years old
Parent/guardian not present at time of visit
Medically unstable
Non-English speaking
Insurance other than Medicaid
Presenting complaint is a mental health problem
Currently receiving mental health treatment

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00750412

Contacts

Contact: Jennifer R Williams, MSW, LSW

(513) 636-3526

jennifer.williams@cchmc.org

Locations

United States, Ohio
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Division of Emergency Medicine	Recruiting
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229

Sponsors and Collaborators

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Columbia University

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

More Information

Additional Information:

Columbia University TeenScreen Program This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati ( Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH )
Study ID Numbers:	CCHMC 2008-0987
Study First Received:	September 9, 2008
Last Updated:	April 7, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00750412 History of Changes
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati:

TeenScreen
Mental Health
Adolescent Mental Health
Social Work

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Emergencies

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
Emergencies

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 07, 2009