Integrated Collaborative Care for Youths With Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Research on the integrated collaborative care team (ICCT) model, a version of an integrated youth service, with youths and families is needed to evaluate its effectiveness in improving mental health functioning compared with hospital outpatient treatment as usual (TAU).

Objectives

To test the benefits of the ICCT in improving youth functioning compared with TAU, to assess youths' general psychopathology symptoms and substance use problems, and to quantify health service access, use, and satisfaction.

Design, setting, and participants

This 2-group pragmatic randomized clinical trial enrolled youths (14-17 years) and caregivers in Canada from September 2016 to March 2020. Participants were randomized to either 1 of 5 outpatient mental health hospital programs

SUBMITTER: Henderson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12076176 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature