Engaging Black Youth in Depression and Suicide Prevention Treatment Within Urban Schools
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Official title
Engaging Black Youth in Depression and Suicide Prevention Treatment Within Urban Schools: A Preliminary Study
Brief summary
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Completing evidence-based treatments for depression has been shown to be particularly problematic for Black adolescents. If Black adolescents' depression treatment needs are to be met, the engagement challenges and the factors that lessen the success of treatment in the "real world" must be addressed. The investigators will examine the effectiveness of the Making Connections Intervention (MCI) and investigate key mediators of both engagement and response to treatment for depression. The MCI is a 1-2 session, evidence-based intervention designed to improve engagement, perceived relevance, and treatment satisfaction among depressed, Black adolescents. The study also uses tailored outreach strategies for adolescents and parents by including innovative digital content such as a web page/app along with other digital products. This study will address an important public health issue: How best to connect Black adolescents with depression to treatment in clinically meaningful ways, and how best to deliver evidence-based treatment to them through school-based services.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03940508
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 29 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 12 Years to 20 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 30, 2020
- Primary completion
- Dec 30, 2023
- Completion
- Dec 30, 2023
- Last update posted
- Sep 14, 2025
2020 – 2023
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | New York | New York | 10003 | — |
| McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research | New York | New York | 10003 | — |
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- Last update posted Sep 14, 2025 · Synced Sep 8, 2026
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