NCT04243603

Effects of Internet-based ERITA Added to TAU in Young People With Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (TEENS) Feasibility Trial

Treatment Effects of Internet-based Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents (ERITA) Added to Treatment as Usual in Young People With Non-Suicidal Self-Injury - (TEENS) Feasibility Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There has been a significant increase in non-suicidal self-injury the last decades especially among young people and treatment initiative are sparse. We aim to assess the feasibility of methods, procedures, and safety of internet-based Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents (ERITA) as add on to treatment as usual (TAU) in 13-17-year-old patients with non-suicidal self-injury referred to psychiatric services.

Detailed description

Non-suicidal self-injury has disseminated almost epidemically through the last decades in young persons. There is no evidence of any experimental treatment for non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents, superior to treatment as usual. Patients with stigmatizing illness such as non-suicidal self-injury may find internet-based interventions more acceptable. The study is a feasibility trial, with a randomization procedure in a parallel group design. Patients will be recruited from Child- and Adolescent Mental Health Services (age 13 to 17 years). The experimental intervention is internet-based, and therapist guided; ERITA consists of online Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents (ERITA) as add-on to treatment as usual. Treatment as usual is provided by multidisciplinary teams in nine outpatient clinics within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark. Feasibility of recruitment and trial procedures will be monitored as well as explorative clinical outcomes.

Conditions

• Non-suicidal Self-injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Internet-based Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents (ERITA-DK)	Please see description of experimental arm (arm one)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-11
• Primary completion: 2021-01-22
• Completion: 2021-01-22
• First posted: 2020-01-28
• Last updated: 2021-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark