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Manual-based Art Therapy for Adolescents With Depression

NCT04603235 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2020-10-26

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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

Interventions

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stockholm

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Vastra Gotaland Region

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Christina Blomdahl, PhD · Region Vastra Gotaland, Sweden

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-01-01
Primary Completion
2020-10-08
Completion
2020-10-08

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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