Psychiatry of Transition in a World in Transition

Mental Health Clinical Trial

— Transition_psy  

Official title:

Multicentre Prospective Interventional Cohort Study Assessing Risk and Protective Factors to Develop Psychopathology in Transitional Age Youth

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04333797
• Other study ID #: P2020/PSY/Transition_psy
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 2, 2020
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: June 2020
• Source: Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital
• Contact: Véronique Delvenne, MD, PhD
• Phone: +32 2 477 21 17
• Email: veronique.delvenne[@]huderf.be
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This clinical study evaluates risk and protective factor to develop psychopathology in transitional age youth. 300 patients will be recruited at the age of 17 years old and assessed at baseline and 2 years later.

Description:

Emerging adults are a particularly at-risk population in mental health. Transitional age youth have specific needs, not currently covered between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services (AMHS), mainly because of existing barriers. Movements from one to the other must be planned to achieve optimal patient care.

Our project aims to identify clinical dimensional characteristics contributing to the development of psychopathology during the transition period. Continuities, discontinuities and resilience factors will be explored. The final purpose is to develop a non-stigmatizing approach to reduce rejection from youths in psychopathological suffering and increase social inclusion.

The transversal and trans-diagnostic approach consists of a dimensional evaluation: 300 youth at the age of 17 will be included in a cohort of in-patients, out-patients and control group. Participants will be assessed at baseline and 2 years later. The primary outcome is based on Health of the Nation Outcome Scale for Children and Adolescents, measuring mental health care need, and WHO Quality of Life assessment.

The secondary outcomes include the assessment of dimensions representing risk or protective factors to develop psychopathology and evolution of mental health status during transition age. Baseline evaluation consists in internalizing/externalizing symptoms, impulsivity/compulsivity, emotion regulation, cognitive functioning, social and family functioning, developmental, medical and trauma history. At follow-up, mental health pathways and transition results will be described.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 17 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• French-speaking and French-understanding

• Subjects who accepted to participated to the study (signature of informed consent/assent document from subjects and parents or legal holder of parental authority)

• Specific criteria for patients: inpatients and out-patients

• Specific criteria for control group: youth from general population or placed in residential centres

Exclusion Criteria:

• Impossibility to answer to the assessment tools

• Medium intellectual disability (homogenous IQ < 75)

• Presence of a grave somatic disease (cancer, cardiac failure, renal failure, central nervous system disorder), that is progressive or that affects the vital prognosis in the short term

• Active participation to another study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Mental Disorder in Adolescence
• Mental Disorders
• Mental Health
• Transitional Care

Intervention

Other:
• Risk and Protective Factors Assessment
First assessment at baseline (T0) - 17 y.o. Follow-up 2 years later (T1) - 19 y.o.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Brugmann University Hospital	Brussels
Belgium	Erasme University Hospital	Brussels
Belgium	Hôpital Universitaire Des Enfants Reine Fabiola	Brussels
Belgium	Service santé mentale à l'ULB	Brussels

Sponsors (6)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Queen Fabiola Children's University Hospital	Brugmann University Hospital, Erasme University Hospital, King Baudouin Foundation, Service santé mentale à l'ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline self-rated mental health status (need for care) at 2 years	Measured at baseline (T0) and follow-up (T1) with the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA).	Change from Baseline HoNOSCA before transition at 17 y.o. to after transition at 19 y.o.
Primary	Change from Baseline self-rated measure of quality of life at 2 years	Measured at baseline (T0) and follow-up (T1) with the Quality of life assessed by World Health Organisation Quality of Life Assessment (WHO-QoL-BREF)	Change from Baseline WHO-QoL before transition at 17 y.o. to after transition at 19 y.o
Secondary	Self-rated measure of traumatic life events	Measured with Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of family functioning	Measured with Family Assessment Device (FAD)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure to quantify the risk of developing psychiatric disorders	Measured with General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of internalising and externalising symptoms	Measured with Youth Self Report 11-18 (YSR)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of impulsivity and compulsivity	Measured with Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of depressivity	Measured with Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of suicidal risk	Measured with Beck Scale of Suicide Ideation (BSS)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of emotional regulation	Measured with Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of interpersonal relationships social adaptation	Measured with Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale (SASS)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of cognitive insight	Measured with Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Cognitive assessment - IQ	Measured with Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Executive functions assessment - alertness, divided attention, flexibility and working memory	Measured with Test of Attentional Performance (TAP)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Executive functions assessment - cognitive inhibition	Measured with STROOP Task	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Executive functions assessment - planning task	Measured with Tower of London Test (TOL)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of executive functions	Measured with Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Self report (BRIEF-SR)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of transition readiness and appropriateness	Measured with Transition Readiness and Appropriateness Mesure (TRAM)	Before transition at 17 y.o. (T0)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of therapeutic alliance	Measured with Helping Alliance Questionnaire (HAQ)	After transition at 19 y.o. (T1)
Secondary	Self-rated measure of transition related outcomes	Measured with Transition Related Outcomes Mesure (TROM)	After transition at 19 y.o. (T1)