None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The first aim of this study is to assess whether motivational interviewing (MI), as a brief pre-treatment intervention, will enhance treatment engagement and psychotherapeutic outcome in adolescents with anxiety and depressive disorders. The second aim is to explore factors that may be implicated in treatment adherence in the unique developmental stage of adolescence, such as, perceived coercion, sense of autonomy, sense of self-efficacy, readiness to change, motivation for therapy, symptoms of anxiety, symptoms of depression, coping strategies, and personal values. Thus, specific factors associated with the mechanisms of action of MI will also be identified.
Interventions
Motivational Interviewing, one session approximately 50 minutes in duration prior to group therapy. These sessions will be conducted one on one by a Registered Clinical Psychologist. The group therapy will commence within two weeks following the motivational interviewing session. The group therapy will be cognitive behavioural therapy based and will be 5 weekly sessions for the duration of approximately 90 minutes. The primary facilitator for the group will be a trained mental health professiona
Motivational Interviewing, one session approximately 50 minutes in duration prior to group therapy. These sessions will be conducted one on one by a Registered Clinical Psychologist. The group therapy will commence within two weeks following the motivational interviewing session. The group therapy will be cognitive behavioural therapy based and will be 5 weekly sessions for the duration of approximately 90 minutes. The primary facilitator for the group will be a trained mental health professional and Capital and Coast District Health Board staff member, and will be blind to the pre-treatment intervention received by group members.
Sponsors
University of Otago, Wellington
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
13 Years to 19 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Individuals (males and females between 13 and 19 years of age), meeting diagnostic criteria for an anxiety or mood disorder, will be recruited through specialist mental health services.
Exclusion criteria
Those individuals with a non-anxiety or mood principal diagnosis, any learning disability or other major deficits in neurocognitive functioning, or active substance abuse will be excluded.
Outcome results
None listed