What Matters to You?

Behavioural, Emotional, and Psychosocial Problems Clinical Trial

— Assert  

Official title:

What Matters to You? How to Strengthen Adolescent User Involvement in Primary Mental Health Services With Systematic Idiographic Assessment

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03014596
• Other study ID #: 2016/FO77493
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2017
• Est. completion date: June 2018

Study information

• Verified date: February 2020
• Source: Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Procedures for systematic user involvement in primary mental health services are lacking, and several adolescents are dissatisfied with their opportunities to influence the service provided. The research on the effects of user involvement is scarce, especially regarding user involvement for children and adolescents. Hence, we suggest introducing an idiographic assessment tool in a selection of Norwegian primary mental health services. Idiographic assessment is a way of measuring psychological constructs, by using tools specifically adapted for each individual respondent.

This protocol describes the implementation and evaluation of a user involvement tool called 'Assert', in Norwegian primary mental health services. Assert is a simple tool where the adolescents themselves decide the goals or themes that they would like to address in collaboration with their service provider. Assert is scored each time the adolescent and the service provider meet, to monitor progress toward the goal. A randomised controlled trial design is proposed for this study. Assert will be implemented in 5-10 Norwegian municipalities, and will include 250 participants between 12 and 23 years. The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between Assert and perceived user involvement. Are idiographic measures an adequate way to operationalise user involvement on an individual level? And if so, can user involvement (i.e. Assert) have an effect on quality of life and mental health in adolescents? And lastly qualitative analyses of the adolescents' themes and goals will be conducted to explore what matters to the adolescents that visit primary mental health services in Norwegian municipalities.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: June 2018
• Est. primary completion date: June 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 23 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescents between 12 and 23 years, with behavioural, emotional, and psychosocial problems

Exclusion Criteria:

• severe psychopathological disorders

• severe drug addiction

• intellectual disabilities

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Behavioural, Emotional, and Psychosocial Problems

Intervention

Other:
• Assert
The Assert-method is a counselling method used to assess and systematically follow up the individual adolescents' perceived needs.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Ål kommune	Ål
Norway	Ringerike kommune	Hønefoss
Norway	Kongsberg kommune	Kongsberg
Norway	Skedsmo kommune	Lillestrøm
Norway	Lørenskog kommune	Lørenskog
Norway	Eidsberg Kommune	Mysen
Norway	Bydel Søndre Nordstrand	Oslo
Norway	UngArena	Oslo
Norway	Familiehuset Adler	Tønsberg
Norway	Nome kommune	Ulefoss
Norway	Våler kommune	Våler

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse	Norwegian Extra Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)		One year
Primary	Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents (ILC)		One year
Primary	Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC)		One year
Secondary	The Assert measurement tool	An ideographic assessment and monitoring tool, used as a part of the Assert method	One year
Secondary	User involvement questionnaire	Perceived degree of user involvement	One year