MI: Facilitated Referral for Children Screening Positive for Mental Illness

• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT00448331
• Collaborator: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (NIH)
• Enrollment: 551
• Location: 1
• Duration (Months): 38
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 14.5

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out how prevalent unidentified Mental Health issues are in the pediatric population that visits the Emergency Department in an urban city.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Mental Disorders; Mentally Ill Persons; Emergency Medicine

Detailed Description

The purpose of this research study is to find out how many children in the Emergency Room have emotional issues and how many of them go unnoticed. In particular the study looks at how well a questionnaire for children and teenagers, the DISC Predictive Scales, Version IV (DPS-IV) works and what is the best way to ask the questions. In addition, for children aged 9-17 this study will look at families' readiness to seek care when a problem is indicated.

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Actual Enrollment: 551 participants
• Observational Model: Cohort
• Time Perspective: Prospective
• Official Title: Facilitated Referral for Children Screening Positive for Mental Illness in the Pediatric Emergency Department and Readiness to Seek Care
• Study Start Date: Jun 1, 2004
• Actual Study Completion Date: Aug 1, 2007

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
positive screen, negative screen Positive screens are those who received positive feedback regarding their answers to a mental illness screening assessment. Negative screens received feedback stating that they did not screen positive for any mental illness.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 Years to 18 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• Child Must be With Biological Mother

• Child Presenting to Emergency Department with an Urgent But Stable condition

• Child must be between the ages of 6 years and 18 years

• Child must have no prior history of Behavioral Health concerns or diagnoses

Exclusion Criteria:

• Child has prior Behavioral Health history, diagnosis, or concerns

• Child not between ages of 6 years and 18 years of ages

• Child presenting without Biological Mother present

• Child acuity level outside of Urgent But Stable for presenting complaints

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Emergency Department	Cincinnati	Ohio	United States	45229

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Jackie Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00448331
• Other Study ID Numbers: 02-9-27; MH063916-03
• First Posted: Mar 16, 2007
• Last Update Posted: Nov 2, 2007
• Last Verified: Oct 1, 2007

• Keywords provided by , ,: Mental Disorders; Mentally Ill Persons; Emergency Medicine; Emergency Department; Screening
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Emergencies; Mental Disorders; Psychotic Disorders

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Nov 2, 2007