NCT01308879

Effects of Routine Feedback to Clinicians on Youth Mental Health Outcomes: A Randomized Cluster Design

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 356 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vanderbilt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this clinical trial was to test the hypothesis that clients of clinicians who were scheduled to receive weekly feedback on their clients' progress would improve faster than clients of clinicians who were not scheduled to receive weekly feedback.

Detailed description

The primary approach to improving psychosocial treatment for youths has been to implement evidence-supported treatments (ESTs) in community services. However, this approach has not produced clear cut results of effectiveness. A recently developed alternative is to improve outcomes through routine measurement and feedback to clinicians and supervisors. The investigators used a cluster randomized experiment with 28 sites affiliated with a national behavioral health organization to assess whether clients of clinicians who were scheduled to receive weekly feedback on their clients' progress would improve faster than clients of clinicians who were not scheduled to receive weekly feedback.

Conditions

• Mental Health Wellness 1
• Psychosocial Problem

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Contextualized Feedback Systems (CFS)tm	After clinical questionnaires are entered, an automated feedback report is available online weekly to clinicians (and supervisors) in the experimental group. The report shows current mental health status of youths, alerts, and trends over time. Reports also show some clinical data on youths' caregivers.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-05-01
• Primary completion: 2008-12-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2011-03-04
• Last updated: 2011-03-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States