The DECIDE Parent-Provider Intervention

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Modified DECIDE Intervention, Treatment as Usual Care Group

In brief

The DECIDE Parent-Provider Intervention is designed to support parents caring for adolescents who are receiving treatment for Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct disorders. Participating in DECIDE study may help you effectively ask questions and participate in decisions about your adolescent's care. There were three active study arms, each arm had a pre-post design of the DECIDE modified intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04445155

Run by

Indiana University

People needed

89

Starts

2020-10-01

Expected to finish

2022-12-30

Last updated by the study team

2024-03-28

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Inclusion Criteria for providers and interns: Providers will be regular paid staff members who are:
• Associate's or bachelor's or PhD prepared providers who work with parents OR
• Masters-prepared clinical social workers or mental health counselors and
• Provide behavioral health services to adolescents and their parents. OR
• Doctoral level interns (e.g. in psychology) and
• Provide behavioral health services to adolescents and their parents OR
• Providers who are bachelor's prepared interns must:
• (1) be currently working with a center or private practice to complete requirements for their Master's degree and (2) be providing behavioral health services to adolescents and their parents.
• Inclusion Criteria for Guardians: Guardians will have a child or adolescent with DIC receiving services from a participating mental health provider. Parents/guardians meeting all the following criteria are eligible:
• are aged 21 or older
• speak English
• are the guardian (biological parent, adoptive parent, step parent, foster parent, or legal guardian) of the child or adolescent or a parent surrogate serving in a primary caregiver role (referred to as "parents"; if foster parent or legal guardian, ).
• must have a child or adolescent aged 3 to 17 years with a diagnosis of Disruptive Impulse Control and Conduct Disorder (DIC) by a mental health professional. (This includes children with behavior problems, such as Oppositional Defiant disorder, Conduct disorders, or Intermittent Explosive disorders).
• Attends regular appointments with a provider
• Foster parents will be included if they have a child with DIC now or in the past, and regardless of whether that child is receiving services from a participating mental health provider or not.
• Exclusion Criteria for parents:
• Show significant cognitive impairment or acute emotional distress on screening
• Have an incarcerated adolescent
• No providers or parents will be excluded on basis of race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
• Specifically for semi-structured interview post intervention. Include: All intervention providers (n = 8) and two of each of their parents (n = 16). To explore different levels of acceptability by parents, for each provider, one parent will be chosen who has a high score (> 3) on the CSQ and one parent who has a low score (< 3). Both parents and providers will be asked about their experience with the intervention, what was helpful or not, and how they would change the intervention.

Where it is running

• Centerstone — Sarasota, Florida, United States
• Centerstone — Bloomington, Indiana, United States
• Bowen Center — Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
• Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
• Centerstone — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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