Clinical trial NCT06343740: First Evaluation of COMET-Y
Official title: A Pilot Study: A First Evaluation of a Personalized Training Targeting Low Self-esteem: COMET-Y
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Self Esteem
Quality of Life
Keywords: Adolescents
Self Esteem
Mental Health Problems
Quality of Life
Ecological Momentary Assesment
Lead sponsor: Accare
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-03
Enrollment: 22
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: This pilot study is a pre-post study.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this pilot study is to evaluate COMET-Y in 22 adolescents (11-18 years) with various mental health problems and low self-esteem. The main questions is: Does COMET-Y, parallel to care as usual (CAU), improve self-esteem?

Before and after the training participants fill in questionnaires to measure self-esteem, mental health problems, resilience, quality of life, emotions and individual goals. Some of the outcomes are measured through diary methods. Youth and therapists will be assessed to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of the COMET-Y training.

Detailed description: Low self-esteem plays an important role in various mental health problems, and targeted treatment of self-esteem could potentially enhance the efficacy of existing treatments. Research in adults shows that self-esteem training improves self-esteem and mental health problems, but in adolescents this is still unknown. COMET-Y is a personalized self-esteem training, specifically developed for adolescents.

In this pilot study, 22 adolescents (11-18 years) with various mental health problems and low self-esteem will be included. Participants receive COMET-Y parallel to care as usual (CAU). Before and after the training participants fill in questionnaires to measure self-esteem, mental health problems, resilience, quality of life, emotions and individual goals. Some of the outcomes are measured through diary methods. Feasibility and acceptability of the COMET-Y training will be evaluated with youth and therapists.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* sufficient mastery of Dutch to complete the measurements
* age between 11 - 18 years
* having self-esteem below average (based on a score =\<15 on the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale; RSES)
* currently receiving care for a mental disorder, for example (but not limited to) anxiety disorder, depression, eating disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, or autism spectrum disorder.
* willingness to participate in weekly sessions

Exclusion Criteria:

• As intensive treatment can restrain the feasibility of attending the 7 weekly sessions of COMET-Y and engage in homework assignments, participants who need acute care are excluded (e.g. crisis, acute suicidality, or psychotic episode).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self Esteem
timeFrame: Two weeks before COMET-Y and a week after COMET-Y
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Domain-specific Self Esteem
timeFrame: Two weeks before COMET-Y and a week after COMET-Y
measure: Mental Health Problems
timeFrame: Two weeks before COMET-Y and a week after COMET-Y
measure: Quality of life
timeFrame: Two weeks before COMET-Y and a week after COMET-Y
measure: Affect
timeFrame: Two weeks before COMET-Y and a week after COMET-Y
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: Two weeks before COMET-Y and a week after COMET-Y
measure: Ecological Momentary Assessments - Global self-esteem
timeFrame: Two weeks before and two weeks after COMET-Y
measure: Ecological Momentary Assesments - Goal Based Outcome (GBO) tool for young people
timeFrame: Two weeks before and two weeks after COMET-Y
measure: Ecological Momentary Assesments - Domain-specific self-esteem
timeFrame: Two weeks before and two weeks after COMET-Y
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Groningen
country: Netherlands
facility: Accare
Study officials:
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