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Intervention Arm for Social Anxiety

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Led By Alexandra C Rucker, MD

Research Sponsored by Children's National Research Institute

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be younger than 65 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 12 months

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Study Summary

This trial will test whether a computerized screening tool is effective in identifying social and behavioral determinants of health for pediatric patients in the emergency department. It will specifically examine whether the tool is effective in identifying these determinants for patients with a subset of 9 high-risk chief complaints, patients with obesity, patients with poor asthma control, and patients with a high number of non-urgent visits.

Eligible Conditions

Social Anxiety
Emergency
Adolescent Behaviors

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 12 months

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~12 months

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 12 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Emergency Department Recidivism

Secondary outcome measures

Community Resource Use

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Active Control

Group I: Intervention ArmActive Control1 Intervention

The intervention group will have access to the services of a social navigation team. The social navigation team will consist of trained community health liaisons, a clinician and a social worker. The social navigation team will function as follows: The research assistant will then instruct the community health intern to review the results of the completed computerized survey. The community health intern will review the results, create a plan of action, i.e. specific referrals to community agencies and next steps needed by the caregiver and or adolescent (e.g., documents to gather, appointments to make, etc.), following pre-developed protocols for each risk area. Each plan will be reviewed with the social worker prior to presentation to the family. Each family will also receive a packet of community resources relevant to each social domain covered in the screening survey, similar to that provided to the enhanced usual care group.

Group II: Enhanced Usual Care ArmActive Control1 Intervention

The enhanced usual care arm will only receive printed information regarding community resources.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Children's National Research InstituteLead Sponsor

210 Previous Clinical Trials

207,362 Total Patients Enrolled

Alexandra C Rucker, MDPrincipal InvestigatorChildren's National Health System

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Is there an ongoing enrolment process for this research?

"The clinicaltrials.gov information implies that this trial is not seeking any new participants at present, as the last update was on October 4th 2022. Nonetheless, there are currently 244 other medical trials recruiting individuals across America."

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Does this clinical experiment permit participants who are over 35 years of age?

"The age range for participants in this study is from 0 to 21 years."

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What qualifications are necessary to be a participant in this research endeavor?

"Qualified applicants must demonstrate juvenile behaviors and be between infancy up to 21 years old. Currently, the trial is searching for approximately 395 participants."

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Social Navigation for Adolescents in ED

Alexandra Rucker 2017. "Social Navigation for Adolescents in ED". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03239041.