A Social Media Website (Supporting Our Valued Adolescents) to Support Treatment Uptake for Adolescents With Depression or Anxiety: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescents with depression or anxiety initiate mental health treatment in low numbers. Supporting Our Valued Adolescents (SOVA) is a peer support website intervention for adolescents seen in primary care settings and their parents with the goal of increasing treatment uptake through changing negative health beliefs, enhancing knowledge, offering peer emotional support, and increasing parent-adolescent communication about mental health.

Objective

This pilot study aimed to refine recruitment and retention strategies, refine document intervention fidelity, and explore changes in study outcomes (the primary outcome being treatment uptake).

Methods

We conducted a 2-group, single-blind, pilot randomized controlled trial in a single adolescent medicine clinic. Pa

SUBMITTER: Radovic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9587493 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature