Reaching Out to Adolescents With Depression

Adolescent Collaborative Care Treatment for Depression

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01140464

Acronym

ROAD

Enrollment

101

Registered

2010-06-09

Start date

2010-04-30

Completion date

2013-04-30

Last updated

2017-05-01

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Conditions

Depression

Keywords

Adolescents

Brief summary

Major Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in adolescence and is associated with significant impairments in development and functioning. This project will rigorously test the Adolescent Collaborative Care Treatment intervention, a health services intervention designed to improve management for depressive disorders among adolescents, via a randomized controlled trial comparing the intervention to usual care. Key components of the trial include enhanced education for youth and parents, youth involvement in choice of evidence-based treatments, care management by an allied health professional with regular supervision by a mental health specialist and pediatrician, and stepped care to advance treatment when youth are not improving. Additional features have been added to engage adolescents and parents including a moderated message board for youth to share with and learn from one another, formalized involvement of the parent, and availability of the care manager during after school hours. Our findings will provide key information on the effectiveness of a developmentally-sensitive adapted collaborative care intervention for the treatment of adolescent depression.

Interventions

OTHERCollaborative care

Provision of depression care management in the primary care setting to improve delivery of evidence based treatments

OTHEREnhanced Usual Care

Provision of screening results to provider, teen and parent with recommendation to seek further care

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

13 Years to 17 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* depression * age 13-17 years * enrollment in study Primary Care Clinics

Exclusion criteria

* suicidality * already enrolled Specialty mental health care * mental health hospitalization in the prior year * substance abuse * bipolar disorder * non-English speaker

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Child Depression Rating Scale	12 months	Depressive symptoms

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Columbia Impairment Scale	12 months	Functional impairment

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 7, 2026