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Grow With Grit: A School Nurse-Led SBIRT Pilot for Early Anxiety Detection

NCT07766785 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2026-08-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

All enrolled students and their parents or guardians will complete baseline anxiety questionnaires. Students with a positive baseline screen will receive a brief school nurse-delivered coping skill, referral support when indicated, and follow-up assessments at approximately three and six months. Students with a negative screen will not enter the intervention and follow-up phase.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Grow with Grit

After targeted case-finding and enrollment, students and their parents or guardians complete the child and parent versions of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED). Students with a score of 25 or higher on either version receive a standardized three- to five-minute, school nurse-delivered micro-CBT intervention during the same or next clinically appropriate encounter. The nurse provides brief psychoeducation about connections among body signals, thoughts, feelings, and stress; practices a coping skill matched to the student's concern, such as paced breathing, grounding, gentle movement, or cognitive reframing; and develops a brief plan for using the skill and returning to class when appropriate. The nurse also initiates a referral through the school's existing MTSS-aligned mental health pathway. Coping skills may be reinforced during subsequent school nurse encounters. Students who screen negative do not receive the study micro-CBT intervention or enter the

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • McLaughlin Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Inc.

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-09
Primary Completion
2027-08-31
Completion
2027-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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