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Understanding Mental Health Crises in Youth with Intellectual Disabilities

This study is looking at youth (ages 7-17) with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) who come to the Rady Children's Hospital Emergency Department because of a mental health crisis (MHC). Researchers will collect blood samples for genomic sequencing (looking at your genes) and study your medical and psychiatric history. They want to understand what factors might make young people with IDDs more likely to experience MHCs. The information from 150 participants will be compared to existing data from other youth with IDDs to help predict who might be at risk and improve care. This study is currently unclear about its recruitment status.

Study design
This is an observational study involving 150 youth. It compares an experimental group to historical groups of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
What's involved
Participants will have biological samples (like blood) collected. Your demographic, medical, and social information will be taken from your electronic health records.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Your data will be extracted from Rady Children's Hospital San Diego electronic health records over 4 years.

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NCT05471232

Mental Health Crises in Youth With IDDs

Recruiting
Not specifiedAges 7–17Observational
Rady Pediatric Genomics & Systems Medicine Institute
~150 participants
Updated 2024-08-09 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Genomic sequencing and molecular diagnostic results, if any.EHR-Based Network Model

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Extract from Rady EHR demographic, biomedical, socioeconomic, and service use data for 150 youth with IDDs presenting to the ED for MHCs
Measured over 4 years

Conditions

Intellectual Disability

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
California1

Study leadership

  • Aaron Besterman, MD, MD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine

Who to contact

Aaron Besterman, MD
[email protected]
858-576-1700 · ext. 221633
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Aggression towards others
Severe agitation
Self-injury
Elopement
Already received any prior whole genome sequencing or exome sequencing
Unable to approach the family or patient for enrollment
Unable to obtain informed consent
family members are ineligible for participation in this study if they are known to not be genetically related to the child/adolescent participant and/or if they are a member of a protected research population.

What this trial measures

  • Extract from Rady EHR demographic, biomedical, socioeconomic, and service use data for 150 youth with IDDs presenting to the ED for MHCs4 years

    Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for a network model that predicts psychiatric outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve has a minimum value of 0.5 and a maximum value of 1, where higher scores represent more accurate predictions of psychiatric outcomes.