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Online Therapy Youth, Equivalent to Treatment As Usual?

NCT06617663 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 172

Last updated 2024-09-27

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Summary

With growing waiting lists in specialized youth mental health care (sGGZ) and shortages of care staff, finding creative solutions to respond to this scarcity issue is important. Online treatment is an example of this, which, especially for young people growing up in a digital age, can be an appropriate and accessible alternative to treatment at a physical location. Online treatment via video calling among youth, while researched and proven effective in a blended form, has not yet been sufficiently researched as a complete replacement for treatment at a physical location. As a result, the potential added value of online treatment for the pressing scarcity issue in healthcare is not yet sufficiently clear.

This study therefore focuses on investigating the effectiveness of fully online treatment using two proven effective interventions: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) within the youth sGGZ. With the results of this research at GGZ-NHN, the investigators want to contribute to the development of guidelines and standards for the implementation of online treatments within Dutch youth mental health care.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.

BEHAVIORAL

ACT

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations and should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. The ACT Your Way method is specifically designed for young people.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • UMC Utrecht

    collaborator OTHER

  • GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-01
Primary Completion
2026-06-01
Completion
2026-09-01

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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