Personalized Digital Treatment for Adolescent Anxiety: A Feasibility Trial
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Helse Stavanger HF
- Where
- Norway2 sites in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 46 people, planned
- Started
- 20 Oct 2025
- Expected to end
- Mar 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Sidekick
- Record updated
- 28 April 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 13 years to 18 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- 13 to 18 years old
- Adequate Norwegian reading, writing and speaking skills
- Access to the internett and a smart-phone
- Diagnosed anxiety disorder
- Receiving outpatient treatment for their anxiety disorder
- Exposure therapy included in therapy during the study period
- Therapist agrees to incorporate the app as an ad-on to therapy
- For patients receiving medication, inclusion requires a stable dose of medication for a psychiatric disorder for six weeks
Who cannot take part
- Participants with serious mental illness, such as suicidality or poor general functioning may be excluded if participation is considered unfeasible or potentially harmful. Decision will be based on collaborative evaluation by the participants therapist and the research-team
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 13 and 18 years old?
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this feasibility study is to test whether a new blended digital intervention for adolescents with anxiety disorders is feasible and acceptable for use, and to help plan future larger scale studies. The main questions it aims to answer are:
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* A: Can the investigators recruit appropriate participants? * B: How appropriate are the data collection procedures and outcome measures? * C: Are the study procedures and interventions suitable for and acceptable to the participants? * D: Does the research team have the resources and ability to manage the study and intervention? * E: Does the intervention show promise of being successful for adolescents with anxiety disorders?
Participants will:
* Receive outpatient anxiety treatment, typically every other week or weekly. * Use the Sidekick app as a homework supplement to plan, carry out, and evaluate exposure exercises between treatment sessions. * Complete questionnaires before, during, after, and three months after using the app. * Some participants and therapists will be invited to take part in qualitative interviews following the intervention.
The group in the trial
- SidekickTreatment being tested
Use of the Sidekick app as an ad-on to regular outpatient treatment.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
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- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Evaluation of a Personalised Digital Treatment for Adolescents With Anxiety Disorders - A Feasibility Trial in Routine Care
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07145307, who can take part
- Record updated
- 28 April 2026