Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04603235
• Other study ID #: 254011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: October 8, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: Vastra Gotaland Region
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10
• Est. completion date: October 8, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: October 8, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 13 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Depressive Disorder

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Manual-based Art Therapy
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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Södra Älvsborgs Hospital	Borås	Västra Götaland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Vastra Gotaland Region	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stockholm

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Adherence to manual - therapists	the therapists self-rate their compliance to the manual on a 4 point Likert scale. describing reasons to adverting from manual	10 weeks
Primary	Change of Treatment satisfaction	Level of satisfactions rated on a 5 point Likert scale. Higher scores indicates higher satisfaction.	Change from baseline at 10 weeks
Secondary	Change of Depression with Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II	contains 21 questions, each answer being scored on a scale value of 0 to 3. Higher score indicate more severe depression.	Change from baseline at 10 weeks
Secondary	Change of quality of life measured with KIDSCREEN-10	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.	Change from baseline at 10 weeks
Secondary	Change of functional impairment measured with Education,Work and Social adjustment Scale EWSAS-C/P	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.	Change from baseline at 10 weeks
Secondary	Change of psychiatric symptoms measured with Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale /R-CADS	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.	Change from baseline at 10 weeks