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Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions

ConditionCommunity Mental Health Services
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age10+
SponsorThe New School

About this trial

The EASE program is an existing, evidence-based program/intervention (originally developed by the WHO), and this study is limited to evaluating the local implementation of this program.

The aims of this pilot study are to:

* Assess the acceptability and feasibility of training and supervision of EASE Helpers (community staff members) through an adapted EASE training. * Evaluate possible problems of recruitment, intervention delivery, and participant retention. * Assess the feasibility of EASE being delivered via a partnership between researchers and community members. * Evaluate implementation of EASE via the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework

A mixed-methods design with qualitative and quantitative approaches will be used to assess these objectives.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Adolescents

10-15 years old

English-speaking

Has obtained parental permission from a legally authorized representative (e.g. legal guardian).

Disqualifiers

The program is not intended for adolescents and caregivers who are experiencing severe cognitive impairments and/or have an imminent risk of suicide/acute protection needs.

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

  • EASE

    Behavioral

    This is the first time EASE is being used in New York to support youth community mental health.

Treatment groups

200 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group
Group A: EASE InterventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Pediatric Symptom Checklist Youth Report (Y-PSC)

For youth participants: The Pediatric Symptom Checklist Youth Report (Y-PSC) is a 35 item questionnaire that helps identify and assess changes in emotional and behavioral problems in children. Participants are to respond to how often they have had certain thoughts, feelings, and experiences listed in the questionnaire in the past 2 weeks with the options "never", "sometimes", and "often".

Time frame
8 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Patient Health Questionnaire - Adolescent Version (PHQ-A)

For youth participants: The PHQ-A assesses degree of depression severity for adolescents via questionnaire. Participants are to respond to how often they have had certain thoughts and feelings listed in the questionnaire in the past 2 weeks with the options "not at all", "several days", "more than half the days", and "nearly every day".

Time frame
8 months
2

Warwick Edinburgh Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)

For youth participants: The WEMWBS is a 14-item scale of positively worded statements covering feeling and functioning aspects of mental wellbeing. Participants are to respond to how often they have had certain thoughts and feelings listed in the questionnaire in the past 2 weeks with the options "none of the time", "rarely", "some of the time", "often", and "all of the time".

Time frame
8 months
3

Impairment of Daily Function

For youth participants: The Impairment of daily functioning tool evaluates an individual's ability to perform basic and instrumental activities of daily living. Participants are to respond to how difficult it is generally to complete some daily tasks with the options "no difficulty", "little difficulty", "moderate difficulty", "a lot difficulty", and "often can't do task".

Time frame
8 months
4

Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM)

For youth participants: The Psychological Sense of School Membership is an 18-item tool that measure adolescent students' perceived belonging or psychological membership in the school environment. Participants are to respond to the statements in the questionnaire on a scale. The minimum value of the scale is 1 and the maximum value of the scale is 5. 1 refers to not at all true and 5 refers to completely true. Whether a higher score means a better or worse outcome depends on whether the questionnaire statement needs to be reverse-coded.

Time frame
8 months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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The New School

Lead sponsor

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