NCT04034576

Mindfulness and Relaxation Interventions in Individual Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents

The Impact of Session-introducing Mindfulness and Relaxation Interventions in Individual Training Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Heidelberg University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study 'Mindfulness and Relaxation interventions in Individual Training Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents' (MARS-CA) aims to examine the effects of short session-introducing interventions with mindfulness elements (SIIME) on juvenile patients' psychopathological symptomatology and therapeutic alliance at the beginning of the first 24 therapy sessions.

Detailed description

Short session-introducing interventions with mindfulness elements (SIIME) shall be compared with session-introducing relaxation interventions (SIRI) and no session-introducing interventions (treatment as usual, (TAU)). Patients between 11 and 19 years and a primary diagnosis of hyperkinetic disorder, depressive disorder or anxiety disorder are invited to participate. Psychotherapy will be conducted by trainee therapists at a trainee outpatient clinic for children and adolescents. It is hypothesized that psychopathological symptomatology and therapeutic alliance improve more in the mindfulness condition than in the relaxation condition and TAU, and that mindfulness moderates the relationship between therapeutic alliance and psychopathological symptomatology stronger than the relaxation condition and TAU.

Conditions

• Hyperkinetic Disorder
• Depressive Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive behavior therapy of trainee therapists	In all three treatment arms, trainee therapists perform a cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) under conditions of the German health care system. This treatment is not a manualized intervention, but rather based on individualized treatment plans that have been developed together with expert supervisors during a five session diagnostic stage. Treatment duration is 24 sessions, while on average every fourth is supervized by an CBT expert therapist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-08
• Primary completion: 2024-05-24
• Completion: 2024-05-24
• First posted: 2019-07-26
• Last updated: 2025-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany