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Text Messaging Support for Psychosis Transition Care

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Recruiting

Led By Vicky Stergiopoulos, MD, MHSc

Research Sponsored by Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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 6 months and 2 years

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will test whether a text messaging intervention can help young people with psychosis navigate the transition from emergency services to early intervention services.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for young people who've been referred to the CAMH early psychosis intervention (EPI) program from emergency services due to suspected psychosis. Participants must be able to communicate in basic written English.Check my eligibility

What is being tested?

The study tests whether text messages can help youth with psychosis transition better from the emergency department to EPI services. It compares an active SMS intervention against a sham SMS, focusing on attendance and engagement.See study design

What are the potential side effects?

Since this trial involves sending and receiving text messages as an intervention, there are no direct medical side effects associated with typical drug or treatment trials.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 6 months and 2 years

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~6 months and 2 years

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 6 months and 2 years for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

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

Primary outcome measures

Psychotic Disorders

Secondary outcome measures

Change in psychotic illness as measured by the Clinical Global Impression (CGI)

Health care costs

Service engagement - Service Engagement Scale (SES)

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Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Placebo Group

Group I: Active SMS InterventionExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Participants assigned to the experimental arm will receive the active SMS intervention. Participants in the active intervention group who consent to participate will be asked to complete a web-based survey. Based on survey findings, purposive sampling will be used to select a subsample of 12 to 20 participants for qualitative interviews.

Group II: Sham SMSPlacebo Group1 Intervention

Participants assigned to the sham comparator will receive the sham SMS intervention. They will not be re-contacted.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Centre for Addiction and Mental HealthLead Sponsor

356 Previous Clinical Trials

81,258 Total Patients Enrolled

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)OTHER_GOV

1,345 Previous Clinical Trials

26,453,581 Total Patients Enrolled

Institute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesOTHER

36 Previous Clinical Trials

2,508,913 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Active SMS Intervention Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT04298450 — N/A

First Episode Psychosis Research Study Groups: Active SMS Intervention, Sham SMS

First Episode Psychosis Clinical Trial 2023: Active SMS Intervention Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT04298450 — N/A

Active SMS Intervention 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT04298450 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Are there vacancies available in this research project for participants?

"Per the information hosted on clinicaltrials.gov, this medical trial is currently enrolling participants. Initially launched on September 21st 2020, it was most recently updated two days ago (September 2nd 2022)."

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Is elderly participation permissible in this experiment?

"The requirements for admission to this trial state that eligible participants must be aged between 16 and 29. In contrast, there are 361 trials specifically designed for children younger than 18 while 952 clinical studies target seniors over 65 years old."

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May I be a participant of this experiment?

"This trial seeks 186 individuals between 16 and 29 years old with conditions on the schizophrenia spectrum or other psychoses. Prerequisites for enrollment include a referral from CAMH's emergency department or related acute services to their early psychosis intervention program."

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To what extent is enrollment being pursued in this research endeavor?

"Affirmative. The clinicaltrials.gov website conveys that this experiment is continuing to search for participants, which began on September 21st 2020 and was most recently amended on September 2nd 2022. 186 people are needed at one venue of recruitment."

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Recent research and studies

formation/NLM/NIH, NCBI. “Gprobe”. 2017. Web. <https://github.com/ncbi/gprobe>..Journal

Gprobe

Information/NLM/NIH, NCBI. 2017. “Gprobe”. GitHub repository. https://github.com/ncbi/gprobe.

clinicaltrials.govStudy

ED to EPI: Using SMS to Improve the Transition From the Emergency Department to Early Psychosis Intervention

2020. "ED to EPI: Using SMS to Improve the Transition From the Emergency Department to Early Psychosis Intervention". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04298450.

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