Primary Care Online Emotion-regulation Treatment (POET)

Summary

Mental health problems in youth are a global problem, causing incalculable suffering in youth and families, harming long-term prospects of youths, and creating substantial economic costs to society.

The overall objective of this study is to build an evidence base for a highly scalable transdiagnostic intervention called the Primary care Online Emotion-regulation Treatment (POET) for youth (12-17 years) seeking treatment for mental health problems.

In a randomized controlled trial, the investigators will examine the effects of POET. The investigators will test if emotion regulation mediates reduction in mental health problems during treatment. In addition the investigators will test if POET is more effective for some individuals than others and evaluate if POET is cost-effective. The investigators will also test whether there are detectable effects of POET on distal outcomes utilizing registry data following participants up to 10 years post treatment.

Conditions

• Mental Health Issue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

POET feeling

POET is adapted from online Emotion Regulation Individual Therapy for Adolescents developed by the research group (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03353961). POET is also based on the Modal model of emotion and Process model of emotion regulation that provides a framework for understanding how emotions are generated, experienced and how they can be regulated. The youth component of POET will include psychoeducation, addressing maladaptive beliefs about emotions and emotion regulation, and teaching adaptive emotion regulation strategies, such as acceptance of emotions and flexible cognitive reappraisal. The parent component will include psychoeducation and teaching effective support and responding to their adolescent's and their own emotions.

BEHAVIORAL

Supportive treatment

The treatment will include educative material on mental health and self-reflection on themes such as school, family and friends. The parent component will include educative material and self reflection in how to support their adolescent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Region Stockholm

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Region Skane

  collaborator OTHER

• Region Östergötland

  collaborator OTHER

• Västra Götalandsregionen

  collaborator OTHER

• Karolinska Institutet

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Johan Bjureberg · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

12 Years

Max Age

17 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-10-16

Primary Completion

2026-10-01

Completion

2031-11-25

Countries

• Sweden

Study Locations