TY - JOUR
T1 - Tech Connect
T2 - An Intervention to Promote Treatment Engagement for Adolescents with Depression
AU - Gearing, Robin E.
AU - Attia-Guetta, Rachel
AU - Moore, Kiara
AU - Gorroochurn, Prakash
AU - Olson, Lindamarie
AU - Malekoff, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Poor treatment engagement remains a challenge in effectively treating adolescents with depression. This exploratory 2-arm RCT aimed to test the feasibility and acceptability of Tech Connect for promoting treatment engagement among adolescents. Twenty youth with depression were randomized to Tech Connect (treatment) or standard community-based mental health care (control). Study aims included: (1) assess the feasibility and acceptability of Tech Connect between-session contacts for adolescents, their parents, and treatment providers and (2) conduct a preliminary analysis of engagement and mental health outcomes. Significant differences were found between the number of treatment sessions attended by the Tech Connect and control group (t = 2.00; p <.05). Adolescents receiving Tech Connect attended 91.3% (mean = 7.5 sessions; SD = 1.58) of their initial eight sessions, while 66.3% (mean = 5.3 sessions; SD = 3.09) attended in the control condition. Tech Connect is a novel, technologically-driven intervention that proved effective in improving treatment engagement among adolescents with depression.
AB - Poor treatment engagement remains a challenge in effectively treating adolescents with depression. This exploratory 2-arm RCT aimed to test the feasibility and acceptability of Tech Connect for promoting treatment engagement among adolescents. Twenty youth with depression were randomized to Tech Connect (treatment) or standard community-based mental health care (control). Study aims included: (1) assess the feasibility and acceptability of Tech Connect between-session contacts for adolescents, their parents, and treatment providers and (2) conduct a preliminary analysis of engagement and mental health outcomes. Significant differences were found between the number of treatment sessions attended by the Tech Connect and control group (t = 2.00; p <.05). Adolescents receiving Tech Connect attended 91.3% (mean = 7.5 sessions; SD = 1.58) of their initial eight sessions, while 66.3% (mean = 5.3 sessions; SD = 3.09) attended in the control condition. Tech Connect is a novel, technologically-driven intervention that proved effective in improving treatment engagement among adolescents with depression.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10597-020-00663-y
DO - 10.1007/s10597-020-00663-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 32588228
AN - SCOPUS:85087079828
SN - 0010-3853
VL - 57
SP - 880
EP - 883
JO - Community mental health journal
JF - Community mental health journal
IS - 5
ER -