NCT01980147Recruiting
Skills for Wellness
Skills for Wellness: Cognitive-behavioural Skills Training for Psychotic-like Experiences, Basic Symptoms, Affective Lability and Anxiety in Youth
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 May 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Severe mental illness such as schizophrenia and mood disorders typically develops at a young age and can cause life-long disability. Currently available treatments cannot cure severe mental illness. This makes it important to find ways to prevent severe mental illness in young people before it has a chance to develop. This research study will pilot a new preventive intervention for young people who are at high risk of developing severe mental illness. The investigators will target early preceding factors (the 'antecedents') to severe mental illness which includes anxiety, unusual hearing and visual experiences, the loss of previously acquired abilities, and sudden and unpredictable changes in mood. These antecedents strongly predict an increased risk of developing severe mental illness. They are often impairing and distressing to the individual but can be improved with self-management skills and parent training, and they are present in the individual years before the onset of severe mental illness which makes them an ideal target for early intervention. The goal is to intervene early enough in the young person's life that severe mental illness can be prevented, hopefully leading to a happy, healthy and productive adulthood. The investigators want to test the acceptability and short-term efficacy of this new preventive intervention.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 360 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 29 Oct 2013
- Start date
- 22 Mar 2014
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Diseases
- Schizophrenia, Depression, Bipolar disorder
- NCT number
- NCT01980147
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 360
- From 22 Mar 2014 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- More than 3 sessions of structured psychological therapy in the past 12 months
Other illness
- Diagnosis of severe mental illness (schizophrenia, other psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, severe major depressive disorder)
Other
- Insufficient understanding of the English language to benefit from the intervention
Who the study is looking for
- FORBOW (Families Overcoming Risks and Building Opportunities for Well-Being) participant between 9-21 years old
- Meet criteria for one or more antecedents (psychotic like experience, basic symptoms, anxiety or affective lability)
Age in the registry: 9 years to 21 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Scotia Health Authority Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Halifax | Canada | Enrolling by invitation |
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