NCT04603235

Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression

Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression: a Pilot Study in Child and Youth Psychiatric Clinic in Sweden

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vastra Gotaland Region · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There is a need to evaluate different interventions in order to meet young people's needs of treatment. The study's goal is to find out if manual-based art therapy is a useful method for young people with depression and thus increase the availability of methods of treatment for adolescents with depression in Child and youth psychiatry in Sweden. The aim is to investigate whether manual-based art therapy is useful as treatment for adolescents with depression by examining feasibility, acceptability and compliant to treatment. Secondary, preliminary study of adolescent depressive symptoms, quality of life and functional level is affected by the treatment. Method: Data from youths aged 13-17 years old and their parents will be collected with questionnaires and structured interviews. Measurements are taken before and after treatment. Acceptability and feasibility will be examined by participants' presence, drop out and cancellations and also by checking the art therapists' compliance to the manual and investigate their reasons to diverge from the manual

Conditions

• Depression
• Depressive Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Manual-based Art Therapy	This is a manual-based treatment and consists of 10 one-hour weekly sessions. The treatment consist of detailed guidelines based on phenomenological art therapy. The sessions follow the same structure: Introduction, short relaxation, art-making, reflections about the image, and conclusions. Examples of comprised art tasks; lifeline, emotional scribbles, and different roles. The art tasks served as a prompt for painting.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-10-08
• Completion: 2020-10-08
• First posted: 2020-10-26
• Last updated: 2020-10-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden