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The overall purpose of this study is to identify adolescents who are at-risk for psychosis, as evidenced by endorsement of mild-to-moderate, sub-syndromal symptoms, and provide them with a potentially preventive intervention aimed at enhancing resilience.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Intervention Arm | Experimental | Living in Families with Emotions (LIFE) |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Living in Families With Emotions | Behavioral | This is an 8-week group-based psychosocial intervention teaching adolescents how to recognize their feelings, manage them, and talk about emotions through group discussions, live exercises, and games. The adolescents' caregivers are also provided with the same information, through two live sessions. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Intervention Feasibility and Acceptability | This measure includes participant (both adolescent and parent/caregiver) attendance, with more attendance of the intervention indicating better feasibility and acceptability. | Before the intervention and 8 weeks later |
| Adolescent Psychotic-Like Symptom Screener (APSS) | The APSS is a 7-item measure assessing the presence of: visual and auditory hallucinations, paranoia, grandiosity, delusions of control, mind reading, and delusions of reference. Items are scored on a 3-point Likert scale (0=No, never, 0.5=Maybe, or 1=Yes, definitely) and are then summed for a total score. | Before the intervention, 8 weeks later, 6 months later, and 12 months later |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale for children (CES-DC) | The CES-DC is a 20-item self-report measure rated on a 4-point Likert scale that captures symptoms of depression within the past week, with higher ratings representing more severe depression. | Before the intervention, 8 weeks later, 6 months later, and 12 months later |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Massachusetts General Hospital | Charlestown | Massachusetts | 02129 | United States |
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| Concise Health Risk Tracking Self-Report (CHRT-SR) | The CHRT-SR measures suicidal thoughts and behaviors using 14-items, with higher ratings indicating more suicidal thoughts and behaviors. | Before the intervention, 8 weeks later, 6 months later, and 12 months later |
| Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) | The SCARED is a 41 item measure to capture anxiety. It is rated on a 3 point Likert scale (not true or hardly ever true, somewhat true or sometimes true, or very true or often true). | Before the intervention, 8 weeks later, 6 months later, and 12 months later |
| The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) | Parents/caregivers rated the CBCL, a 113-item multiple choice self-report measure to capture psychiatric symptoms of the adolescent through parent/caregiver ratings. | Before the intervention, 8 weeks later, 6 months later, and 12 months later |
| The Penn Emotion Recognition Test (ER-40) | This is a 15-minute computer-based task which involves identifying which emotion (neutral, sad, happy, angry, or scared) is being expressed in 40 (half male and half female presenting) online images of faces to measure facial emotion recognition. | Before the intervention, 8 weeks later, 6 months later, and 12 months later |