Using Neuroimaging to Understand Children's Mental Health and Treatment Outcomes
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Behavior Problems
In brief
The study will compare the impact of Child STEPs versus usual school-based therapy on neural and companion behavioral measures of self-regulation.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03112265
- Run by
- Harvard University
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 2015-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2020-07-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-03-10
Who can join
Age: 7 and older, up to 13. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- enrolled in grades 3-7
- have a primary clinical problem in the areas of anxiety, depression, conduct, or posttraumatic stress
- clinically elevated problem levels on the Internalizing, Externalizing, Anxious-Depressed, Withdrawn-Depressed, Aggressive Behavior, or Rule-Breaking Behavior scales of the Child Behavior Checklist or Youth Self-Report or on the UCLA Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index.
You may not qualify if…
- Mental retardation
- Pervasive developmental disorder
- Eating disorder
- children for whom attention problems or hyperactivity are the primary referral concern
- active psychosis and/or a suicide attempt in the previous year
- To participate in the two neuroimaging tasks (Emotion Regulation Task; Emotional Go/No Go Task), participants must be healthy (no major medical illness), right-handed, fluent in English, have no history of neurological impairment (including but not limited to history of loss of consciousness for great than 20 minutes, seizures, stroke, etc.), have normal or corrected to normal vision, and have no contra-indications or risk factors for MRI research (such as braces or metal implants).
Where it is running
- Harvard University — Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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