Common Engagement Strategies (Common Factors) for Childhood Anxiety

Anxiety Clinical Trial

Official title:

Common Engagement Strategies (Common Factors) for Childhood Anxiety

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02441569
• Other study ID #: P20MH086048
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 8, 2015
• Last updated: May 5, 2017
• Start date: September 2014
• Est. completion date: January 2016

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This trial examines the effectiveness of training pediatric primary care providers (nurse practitioners, doctors) to use of strategies that enhance family/youth empowerment and engagement during office visits for children with mild to moderate problems with anxiety. Children coming for routine care at one clinic are screened for anxiety symptoms and seen by either a specially trained provider or one of the clinic's other regular staff members.

Description:

Children who are thought to have mild to moderate anxiety will, via their parents, be offered the opportunity to receive treatment from their pediatric primary care provider. Providers will either use their existing anxiety approaches or will use those approaches combined with extra communication skills designed to promote patient and parent engagement in care. Children will be seen for up to 4 30-minute visits at 2 week intervals, with a follow-up telephone call 3 months later to asses the impact of treatment. Children with more severe anxiety (or those whose parents so desire) will be referred for specialized mental health care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 32
• Est. completion date: January 2016
• Est. primary completion date: January 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Coming for well-child visit to designated clinical site;

• SCARED score 25 or greater

Exclusion Criteria:

• acute medical illness, SCARED 40 or greater

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Anxiety Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Common factors engagement training for provider
Primary care providers have received brief training in communication skills designed to promote family engagement in care including understanding of treatment and empowerment.
• Standard pediatric advice for childhood anxiety
Providers will be free to use their existing knowledge of anxiety problems to offer routine counseling.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Georgetown University Pediatric Clinic	Washington, D.C.	District of Columbia

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	Georgetown University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED)	Re-test on short inventory of anxiety-related symptoms	3 months