I-CARE: A Pilot Study of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy(CBT) for Mood and Anxiety Disorders

NCT06532500 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2025-05-13

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if CBT(Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)-MyOWL(Optimizing Wellness through Literature) is feasible, leads to better patient retention, and has high acceptability by youth psychiatric outpatients with mood and/or anxiety disorder aged 14-19. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Primary Objective (feasibility): To determine whether a clinically meaningful proportion of youth complete a full course of CBT-MyOWL / CBT-as-usual.

Primary Objective (acceptability): To determine whether the CBT-MyOWL and CBT-as-usual interventions delivered are acceptable to youth participants.

Secondary Objectives:

1. To determine whether CBT-MyOWL enhances time of retention compared to CBT-as-usual.
2. To determine whether youth who receive CBT-MyOWL have improved scores on all of the following over the course of treatment and endpoint compared to youth who receive CBT-as usual: i) depression and anxiety ii) suicidal ideation, iii) self-harm, and iv) coping and emotional resiliency.

Participants will:

Participate in 12 sessions of either CBT-MyOWL or CBT-as-usual (active control) Completes 4-5 questionnaires at sessions 3,6,9,12 Complete the acceptability and exit interview at session 12

Conditions

  • Mood Disorders
  • Anxiety Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CBT-MyOWL

12-sessions of CBT-MyOWL

BEHAVIORAL

CBT-as-usual

12-sessions of CBT using Mind Over Mood or Anxiety Phobia

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mark Sinyor, MD · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-10-24
Primary Completion
2027-09-01
Completion
2027-09-01

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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