School Adolescent Mood Project: Efficacy of IPT-AST in Schools

NCT04109716 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 242

Last updated 2025-06-11

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Summary

This school-based randomized controlled trial will: a) examine the effects of telehealth-administered Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), an evidence-based depression prevention program, as compared to services as usual (SAU) on social processes and emotional and school outcomes, b) examine moderators and mediators of intervention effects, and c) assess the costs, cost-effectiveness, acceptability, feasibility, fidelity, and sustainability of IPT-AST.

Conditions

  • Depressive Symptoms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Adolescent Skills Training

This is an indicated group depression prevention consisting of 2 individual pre-group sessions, 8 weekly group session, and up to 6 individual booster sessions. IPT-AST will be delivered predominately through telehealth.

BEHAVIORAL

Services as usual

Services as usual is expected to be brief periodic sessions (in person or remote) with the school counselor or services in the community.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Jami Young, PhD · CHOP, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-15
Primary Completion
2024-12-02
Completion
2024-12-02

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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