Clinical trial NCT03014596: What Matters to You?
Official title: What Matters to You? How to Strengthen Adolescent User Involvement in Primary Mental Health Services With Systematic Idiographic Assessment
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Behavioural, Emotional, and Psychosocial Problems
Lead sponsor: Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Norwegian Extra Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation
First posted: 2017-01-09
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 23
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Procedures for systematic user involvement in primary mental health services are lacking, and several adolescents are dissatisfied with their opportunities to influence the service provided. The research on the effects of user involvement is scarce, especially regarding user involvement for children and adolescents. Hence, we suggest introducing an idiographic assessment tool in a selection of Norwegian primary mental health services. Idiographic assessment is a way of measuring psychological constructs, by using tools specifically adapted for each individual respondent.

This protocol describes the implementation and evaluation of a user involvement tool called 'Assert', in Norwegian primary mental health services. Assert is a simple tool where the adolescents themselves decide the goals or themes that they would like to address in collaboration with their service provider. Assert is scored each time the adolescent and the service provider meet, to monitor progress toward the goal. A randomised controlled trial design is proposed for this study. Assert will be implemented in 5-10 Norwegian municipalities, and will include 250 participants between 12 and 23 years. The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between Assert and perceived user involvement. Are idiographic measures an adequate way to operationalise user involvement on an individual level? And if so, can user involvement (i.e. Assert) have an effect on quality of life and mental health in adolescents? And lastly qualitative analyses of the adolescents' themes and goals will be conducted to explore what matters to the adolescents that visit primary mental health services in Norwegian municipalities.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents between 12 and 23 years, with behavioural, emotional, and psychosocial problems

Exclusion Criteria:

* severe psychopathological disorders
* severe drug addiction
* intellectual disabilities

Primary outcomes:
measure: Strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)
timeFrame: One year
measure: Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents (ILC)
timeFrame: One year
measure: Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC)
timeFrame: One year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The Assert measurement tool
timeFrame: One year
measure: User involvement questionnaire
timeFrame: One year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hønefoss
country: Norway
facility: Ringerike kommune
city: Kongsberg
country: Norway
facility: Kongsberg kommune
city: Lillestrøm
country: Norway
facility: Skedsmo kommune
city: Lørenskog
country: Norway
facility: Lørenskog kommune
city: Mysen
country: Norway
facility: Eidsberg Kommune
city: Oslo
country: Norway
facility: Bydel Søndre Nordstrand
city: Oslo
country: Norway
facility: UngArena
city: Tønsberg
country: Norway
facility: Familiehuset Adler
city: Ulefoss
country: Norway
facility: Nome kommune
city: Våler
country: Norway
facility: Våler kommune
city: Ål
country: Norway
facility: Ål kommune
Study officials:
affiliation: Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway (RBUP)
name: Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Tollefsen TK, Neumer SP, Berg-Nielsen TS. "What matters to you?": A randomized controlled effectiveness trial, Using Systematic Idiographic Assessment as an intervention to Increase Adolescents' perceived control of their mental health. J Adolesc. 2020 Jan;78:53-61. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.11.006. Epub 2019 Dec 10.