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Filter by:Despite the high prevalence of sleep difficulties in children with disruptive behavior disorders, little is known about the role of sleep in treating disruptive behavior. The current study evaluates the addition of a sleep intervention to an existing parent-training program for caregivers of children ages 3-8 with disruptive behaviors. Objectives are to examine the impact of a novel sleep treatment program on sleep, disruptive behavior, and other measures of family functioning, utilizing a variety of self-report and objective measures (e.g. actigraphy, electrodermal activity). The investigators hypothesize that sleep intervention will result in improvements in sleep and disruptive behavior compared to control group receiving a highly plausible addition to the standard parent training intervention, and that sleep outcomes will moderate overall treatment success.
The study is a pilot study of Cognitive therapy for people with psychosis who have distressing visual hallucinations. The aim is to evaluate whether this is an acceptable, feasible and effective treatment. This is a pilot study and there is no randomisation to either CBT or treatment as usual (TAU). If a participant is allocated to the cognitive therapy plus TAU condition then the participant will meet with a therapist on initially a weekly basis and receive up to 8 sessions of CBT over a 2 month period. The participant will also have regular assessments conducted by a researcher who is independent to the treatment group. It is predicted that those people receiving CBT will improve on measures of symptoms, and particularly for measures of visual hallucinations.
Primary study: This study is a single-site, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial to compare an evidence-based structured program of 30-35 hours of on-line cognitive and social cognitive training exercises performed over 16 weeks (~2 hours per week), delivered with an innovative digital app which provides users with a motivation coach to set personalized goals and with secure social networking for peer support, "PRIME" ; vs. 2) A control condition of computer games, encouraged at ~2 hours per week over 16 weeks, delivered with "PRIME". Unblinded Cognitive Training Sub-Study: Participants who were randomized to the computer games arm of the trial may be offered access to the active cognitive training at the end of their 6 month follow up appointments, if they still meet inclusion criteria. PRIME Super Users Sub-Study: Participants who have provided all follow up data to the initial study, including those who are currently enrolled in the Unblinded Cognitive Training sub-study, may be offered continued participation in the PRIME community as super-users.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of PriCARE in decreasing child behavior problems and improving parenting capacity and skills at 4 primary care clinics in Philadelphia.
The purpose of this study is to determine the proportion of children presenting to a pediatric emergency department with an acute mental health/behavioral crisis or clinical drug toxicity who have a "match" or "mismatch" between the genes for drug metabolizing enzymes and their current or recent drug therapy. The investigators will utilize a readily available and FDA-approved cheek swab DNA test --GeneSight®--in these children that categorizes patients into 3 different type of groups - RED, YELLOW, and GREEN based on individuals' abilities to metabolize psychotropic drugs . Specific objectives include: - The relationship of genomic mismatch to serum drug concentrations, either low or high - The proportion of children with a genomic mismatch who present to PED with intentional self-injury. - The relationship between match versus mismatch and self- and caregiver-reported outcomes of functioning, drug efficacy, and drug tolerability. - Examine the proportion of children/adolescents who present to PED with an adverse drug reaction to one or more psychotropic with a genomic mismatch. - Quantify the specific adverse reactions related to a mismatch of genotypes.
The present study aims to investigate whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) reduces auditory hallucinations in patients with psychosis. In addition, the neuronal changes of tDCS will be examined.
Clarify the determinants of the construction of a Therapeutic Alliance (AT) between paramedical staff (nurses and caregivers ) and adult patients in a functional unit of full-time general psychiatric Whether the quality of Therapeutic Alliance influences the continued support outpatient , after completion of full-time hospitalization.
The main purpose of the study is to examine to which extent abnormalities in the dynamics of neural activities observed in patients with psychosis is related to difficulties at ordering simple visual stimuli and/or personal events.
The purpose of this program is to provide patients with PDP access to pimavanserin until the product receives marketing approval from the FDA and is commercially available.
The primary goal of the proposed study is to investigate the implementation and effectiveness of the mPOWR (Moving Patient-centered Outcomes through Wellness and Recovery) in diverse urban and rural community mental health settings. The study compares patient participation and outcomes using the mPOWR system to a usual care control condition. Four community mental health agencies participate in the research: two in San Francisco (urban) and two in N.M. (rural). One site in each setting serves as the mPOWR implementation site and the other serves as the control site. Service sites were randomly assigned to intervention or usual care conditions. A quasi experimental design was used; only eligible participants were enrolled in the study (e.g., exclusion criteria of moderate to severe cognitive impairment, patient services structured for provision of mPOWR implementation, etc.). The study design will employ repeated quantitative measures to assess change in outcomes within and across conditions over time. Qualitative methods in the form of focus group interviews will also be used to round out the information obtained about patient and provider expectations and experiences. Primary outcomes of interest include: Short Form Health Survey-12 (SF-12; physical and mental health aspects of health and well-being); Outcome Rating Scale (ORS; general well-being, personal well-being, close relationships, and work/school/friend relationships); Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (congruence of patient's and provider's participation in therapeutic decision making and patient's understanding of treatment and treatment options); Working Alliance Inventory (perception of therapeutic alliance); and Satisfaction Questionnaire (communication patterns between physicians and their patients).