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Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression

Sponsor
Vastra Gotaland Region (Other)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT04603235
Collaborator
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stockholm (Industry)
10
Enrollment
1
Location
1
Arm
21.2
Actual Duration (Months)
0.5
Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

There is a need to evaluate different interventions in order to meet young people's needs of treatment. The study's goal is to find out if manual-based art therapy is a useful method for young people with depression and thus increase the availability of methods of treatment for adolescents with depression in Child and youth psychiatry in Sweden.

The aim is to investigate whether manual-based art therapy is useful as treatment for adolescents with depression by examining feasibility, acceptability and compliant to treatment. Secondary, preliminary study of adolescent depressive symptoms, quality of life and functional level is affected by the treatment.

Method: Data from youths aged 13-17 years old and their parents will be collected with questionnaires and structured interviews. Measurements are taken before and after treatment. Acceptability and feasibility will be examined by participants' presence, drop out and cancellations and also by checking the art therapists' compliance to the manual and investigate their reasons to diverge from the manual

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Behavioral: Manual-based Art Therapy
 N/A

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
10 participants
Allocation:
N/A
Intervention Model:
Single Group Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Masking Description:
The participants identities are masked for researchers
Primary Purpose:
Treatment
Official Title:
Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression: a Pilot Study in Child and Youth Psychiatric Clinic in Sweden
Actual Study Start Date :
Jan 1, 2019
Actual Primary Completion Date :
Oct 8, 2020
Actual Study Completion Date :
Oct 8, 2020

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Intervention

This is a quasi-experimental study

Behavioral: Manual-based Art Therapy
This is a manual-based treatment and consists of 10 one-hour weekly sessions. The treatment consist of detailed guidelines based on phenomenological art therapy. The sessions follow the same structure: Introduction, short relaxation, art-making, reflections about the image, and conclusions. Examples of comprised art tasks; lifeline, emotional scribbles, and different roles. The art tasks served as a prompt for painting.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Adherence to manual - therapists [10 weeks]

    the therapists self-rate their compliance to the manual on a 4 point Likert scale. describing reasons to adverting from manual

  2. Change of Treatment satisfaction [Change from baseline at 10 weeks]

    Level of satisfactions rated on a 5 point Likert scale. Higher scores indicates higher satisfaction.

Secondary Outcome Measures

  1. Change of Depression with Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II [Change from baseline at 10 weeks]

    contains 21 questions, each answer being scored on a scale value of 0 to 3. Higher score indicate more severe depression.

  2. Change of quality of life measured with KIDSCREEN-10 [Change from baseline at 10 weeks]

    Measure global Health related quality of life. HRQoL score for monitoring and screening uses. the questionnaire consist of 10 questions, each answer being scored on a 5 points Likert scale.

  3. Change of functional impairment measured with Education,Work and Social adjustment Scale EWSAS-C/P [Change from baseline at 10 weeks]

    Is a self-reported scale to measure functional impairment attributed to an identified problem. is a five-item self-report scale measuring functional impairment on a nine-point scale. Higher rating indicating more impairment.

  4. Change of psychiatric symptoms measured with Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression Scale /R-CADS [Change from baseline at 10 weeks]

    47-item questionnaires that measure the reported frequency of various symptoms of anxiety and low mood. They produce a total anxiety and low mood score and separate scores for each of the follow sub-scales: separation anxiety; social phobia; generalized anxiety; panic; obsessive compulsive; total anxiety; and, low mood. Each answer being scored on a 4 points Likert scale.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
13 Years to 17 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 13-17 year

  • Depression as main diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria:

  • high suicide risk

  • ongoing psychosis

  • eating disorder

  • Untreated PTSD

  • Patients are excluded if there is suspicion of violence, abuse, abuse in the home or other vulnerability which requires other interventions to ensure the safety.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 Södra Älvsborgs Hospital Borås Västra Götaland Sweden 50182

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Vastra Gotaland Region
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stockholm

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Christina Blomdahl, PhD, Region Vastra Gotaland, Sweden

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.
Responsible Party:
Christina Blomdahl, Research and Development manager, Vastra Gotaland Region
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT04603235
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • 254011
First Posted:
Oct 26, 2020
Last Update Posted:
Oct 26, 2020
Last Verified:
Oct 1, 2020
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
No
Plan to Share IPD:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product:
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product:
No
Keywords provided by Christina Blomdahl, Research and Development manager, Vastra Gotaland Region
art therapy
program development
Adolescent Health
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depression
Depressive Disorder

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Oct 26, 2020