Clinical trial NCT02987608: A Feasibility Trial of Power Up
Official title: A Feasibility Trial of Power Up: A Smartphone App to Support Young People to Make Shared Decisions in Therapy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emotional Difficulties
Lead sponsor: University College, London
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
name: MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative
name: Common Room Consulting Ltd
name: Create Marketing
First posted: 2016-12-09
Enrollment: 120
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: There is an increasing demand for digital tools to empower young people with mental health difficulties (NHS England, 2015). Digital information, advice and mood tracking tools are increasingly being used to support child mental health. Evidence suggests that young people want to be active participants in their care and involved in decisions about their treatment. However, there is a lack of digital shared decision making tools available to support young people in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This study aims to develop Power Up, a smartphone app to empower young people in CAMHS to make their voice heard and to participate more in decisions around their care.

The project will involve two phases:

* Development Phase -Developing Power Up according to the views and ideas expressed by young people, their parents/ carers, and clinicians in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) sessions. -Conducting interviews and focus groups with 10 young people in CAMHS, 10 parents/ carers and 10 clinicians to review the acceptability of the content and format of Power Up.
* Feasibility testing Phase -Conducting a feasibility trial with 120 young people with emotional difficulties, aged 11-19 years, from three London CAMHS. 60 young people will receive treatment as usual and 60 will use Power Up alongside treatment as usual. Participant's ratings of empowerment, activation, and symptoms will be measured soon after their referral to the service. The same measures plus shared decision making questionnaires will be administered three months later.

The findings will inform the planning of a prospective cluster controlled trial. More broadly this trial will contribute an understanding of the feasibility and acceptability of developing and implementing a shared decision making app into CAMHS.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Recently been referred to CAMHS (pre - first appointment)
* Presenting with emotional difficulties
* Clinician will have confirmed that the young person does not have any vulnerability which would make taking part in the study inappropriate to their context

Primary outcomes:
measure: Shared Decision Making Questionnaire - 9 (SDM Q-9)
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: CollaboRATE
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Experience of Service Questionnaire (ESQ)
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Dyadic OPTION scale
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Patient Activation Measure - Mental Health (PAM - MH)
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Youth Efficacy / Empowerment Scale - Mental Health (YES - MH)
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Client Receipt of Services Inventory (CSRI) - Children's Version.
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Did Not Attends (DNAs)
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Number of sessions attended
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Type of therapy / intervention received
timeFrame: 3 months
Locations:
city: London
country: United Kingdom
facility: East London NHS Foundation Trust
city: London
country: United Kingdom
facility: North East London NHS Foundation Trust
city: London
country: United Kingdom
facility: The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Study officials:
affiliation: UCL & Anaa Freud National Centre for Children and Families
name: Miranda Wolpert, Professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Chapman L, Edbrooke-Childs J, Martin K, Webber H, Craven MP, Hollis C, Deighton J, Law R, Fonagy P, Wolpert M. A Mobile Phone App to Support Young People in Making Shared Decisions in Therapy (Power Up): Study Protocol. JMIR Res Protoc. 2017 Oct 30;6(10):e206. doi: 10.2196/resprot.7694.