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Theatre in Adolescents With Chronic Medical Conditions (CMCs)

NCT05468788 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2024-08-12

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Summary

Investigators are building a program that uses improvisation to teach kids and teens with medical issues healthy ways to cope. Medical issues have been linked to anxiety and depression. Doing theatre can prevent these complications. Participants will meet in groups of about ten for ten weeks to do improvisation that is fun and supportive. Participants will meet with a study team member before the program starts, after the program ends, six months after the program ends, and twelve months after the program ends. At these visits, participants will be screened for anxiety, depression, quality of life, and will be given a short interview.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention: Integrative Community Therapy-based Psychodrama

Participants produce theatre scenes depicting issues that they have experienced. Group leaders then use a guide to facilitate a discussion of participants' feelings, coping strategies, and sharing of local knowledge.

BEHAVIORAL

Control: Improvisational Theatre

Participants play improvisational theatre games.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Geisinger Clinic

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karen A Ephlin, MD · Geisinger Clinic

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-05-24
Primary Completion
2024-08-31
Completion
2024-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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