Digital Strategies to Advance Help-Seeking for Psychosis Risk
This study is looking at how digital tools can help young people (ages 12-29) who might be at high risk for developing psychosis (a mental health condition that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves) get help sooner. Researchers want to understand different ways young people seek help online and find the best way to identify those at risk. They will use an online screening platform from Mental Health America and work with 25,000 young people. The goal is to see how many people move through different stages of seeking help, from just looking at information to getting connected with local clinical care. They also want to find the most accurate score on an online questionnaire to identify young people at clinical high risk.
- Study design
- This is an observational study planning to enroll 25,000 participants. It is not a randomized trial and the phase is not specified.
- What's involved
- Participants need to be able to complete the English language PQ-B (Prodromal Questionnaire-Brief) on Mental Health America's screening platform.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The primary goals of the study are measured at 1 year.
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Digital Strategies to Advance Help-Seeking Aim 1 and 2
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Michael Birnbaum, MD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Columbia University
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What this trial measures
- Aim 1: Proportion of participants in each help-seeking category1 year
Data from participants, including online metadata (time spent online, # of resources viewed, time spent to complete the PQ-B, # of texts initiated/exchanged), self-report (demographics, symptom type and severity, PQ-B score, goals/needs, self-efficacy), and natural language will be used to cluster participants into 4 categories: (1) Pre-intenders (take the PQ-B); (2) Intenders (initiate a text exchange with a peer navigator; (3) Actors (advance to clinical assessment); and (4) Super-actors (advance to intake).
- Aim 2: Threshold score for identifying Clinical High-Risk Youth online1 year
This score will be determined using data from population-based PQ-B screening. A total distress score of 20+ is predicted to generate the highest diagnostic odds ratio with a sensitivity of at least 80% online, as determined by remote clinical assessment. For the remainder of the study, a threshold score that maximizes specificity and sensitivity will be used.