NCT05432323

Multi-family Therapy and School Refusal: an Exploratory Study With Adolescents and Their Families

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether multi-family therapy is effective in the treatment of school refusal with anxiety in adolescence.

Detailed description

Anxious school refusal in adolescence is a major public health problem. The involvement of families is essential and multi-family therapy has shown its effectiveness for many mental disorders. This study aims to explore the benefit of multi-family therapy in the care of anxious school refusal in adolescence. The method will be qualitative with phenomenological analysis of semi-structured interviews with adolescents and their parents and quantitative with a SCED design to assess the evolution of the level of anxiety of adolescents and parents, as well as personalized objectives. The objective is therefore to improve the care of adolescents with anxious school refusal.

Conditions

• School Phobia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multi-family therapy	8 sessions of Multi-family therapy of 3 hours each during 24 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-12
• Primary completion: 2024-03-02
• Completion: 2026-07-01
• First posted: 2022-06-27
• Last updated: 2025-09-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France