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My Avenue to helP - Adaptive Mentalization-based Integrative Treatment Compared to Management as Usual for Youths With Multiple Problems: a Non-Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial
Led by Pia Jeppesen · Updated on 2025-08-11
60
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
148 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
P
Pia Jeppesen
Lead Sponsor
L
Lejre Municipality
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
My Avenue to HelP (MAP) is a non-randomized feasibility study testing the implementation of a cross-sectoral collaboration targeted youths, aged 12-17 years, with multiple social and psychological problems. MAP is a one-year intervention based on Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT). MAP is not a new treatment method, but rather a new way of offering and organizing support in the existing network around the young person. The objective is to create a new way for professionals across sectors to collaborate in supporting our most vulnerable youth. Thereby, the investigators aim to benefit the youths by incorporating a mentalizing stance to promote lasting changes beyond the intervention period. The MAP Project will run from 2025 to 2027. The research will consist of two work packages (WPs) * WP1 will test the feasibility of the MAP project examining a) whether young people can be successfully recruited to the project b) if the evaluation design and methods are feasible and c) if the intervention is feasible to participants and employees (quantitatively). * WP2 will assess implementation determinants and evaluate the implementation strategies employed in the project. Furthermore, the acceptability of the intervention will qualitatively be assessed by interviews with selected participants, their parents, as well as employees. Participants: In total 60 youths aged 12-17 years from Region Zealand, Denmark: * 40 youths will be enrolled and receive the one-year MAP Intervention; 30 youths residing in Roskilde Municipality and 10 residing in Lejre Municipality * 20 youths from other municipalities in Region Zealand will be included in the trial as a control group. To assess the nature and extent of the mental health problems and potential psychiatric disorders among the participating youths, the parents and the young person will be asked to complete an online questionnaire (Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA)).
CONDITIONS
Official Title
My Avenue to helP - Adaptive Mentalization-based Integrative Treatment Compared to Management as Usual for Youths With Multiple Problems: a Non-Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Documented record of multiple problems defined as at least 2 of the following: absence from school or non-adherence to education; risk behaviors like alcohol or cannabis abuse, or repeated suicide attempts or self-harm needing somatic treatment; repeated visits to emergency, trauma, or acute wards; and/or one of the following: contact with police or legal justice system; homelessness within the last year.
- Age 12 to 17 years at time of inclusion.
- Strong indication of mental disorders defined as a diagnosis of a mental disorder, further assessed using the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA).
- Written/signed informed consent from all legal guardians and oral consent from youths aged 15 years and older. Written/signed consent from youths will be collected if they turn 18 during the study.
You will not qualify if you...
- Substantial intellectual disability with IQ below 50 or a level of daily and social function that does not allow participation or understanding of the study to provide oral consent.
- Not living in Region Zealand.
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Department, Psychiatry Region Zealand
Roskilde, Region Sjælland, Denmark, 4000
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Research Team
P
Pia Jeppesen, Professor, MD
CONTACT
K
Kristine T Hansen, MD, ph.D-Student
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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