Clinical trial NCT02023736: Assessing Psychotherapy Outcome With Feedback
Official title: Assessing Psychotherapy Outcome in Treatment as Usual Versus Treatment as Usual With the STIC Feedback System
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Individual Psychiatric Disorder
Couple Dysfunction
Family Dysfunction
Lead sponsor: The Family Institute at Northwestern University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Chicago Community Trust
name: Jewish Child and Family Services
name: Catholic Charities
name: Community Counseling Centers of Chicago
First posted: 2013-12-30
Enrollment: 1000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study is a comparison of client outcomes in two different types of psychotherapy treatment. In one condition clients will receive treatment-as-usual (TAU); the therapy that they would normally receive. In the other condition clients will receive treatment-as-usual but in addition their therapist will have access to empirical feedback on client progress. Clients in the feedback condition will fill out weekly online questionnaires, and their therapists will have access to a website that feeds back the results of these questionnaires. The purpose of the study is to understand the impact of providing such feedback to therapists. Participating therapists at 4 sites will offer all of their clients the opportunity to participate, and participating clients will be randomly assigned to either condition. This should result in a representative sample of client seeking treatment at these 4 Chicago-area clinics.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Client seeks therapy at one of the 4 participating sites
* For Individual therapy: client must consent and complete pre-test battery before the first therapy session
* For couple therapy: both clients must consent and complete pre-test battery before the first therapy session
* For family therapy: at least one client must consent and complete pre-test battery before the first therapy session
* Clients must be 12 years of age or older
* Clients must be able to read (English or Spanish) at a 6th grade level

Exclusion Criteria:

* Clients under 12 years of age
* Clients incapable of reading at a 6th grade level
* Clients who are blind, or are have sufficiently impaired sight as to be unable to read the questions on the web portal

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in mental health symptoms at termination
timeFrame: At the termination of therapy (varies naturally case-to-case, but an average of 7 weeks) clients complete the outcome packet that asks about mental health symptoms in the previous month.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in mental health symptoms at 6-month follow up
timeFrame: 6 months post termination
measure: Change in mental health symptoms at 12-month follow-up
timeFrame: 12 months post termination
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Community Counseling Centers of Chicago
state: Illinois
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Jewish Child and Family Services
state: Illinois
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Catholic Charities
state: Illinois
city: Evanston
country: United States
facility: The Family Institute at Northwestern University
state: Illinois
Study officials:
affiliation: The Family Institute at Northwestern University
name: William Pinsof, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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