Personalizing Mental Health Treatment for Youth and Families

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Disruptive Behavior
• Traumatic Stress

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

5 Years - 15 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Culturally Responsive Assessment, Formulation, and Treatment Tool (CRAFTT) — OTHER
  CRAFTT will help clinicians assess whether their client is engaged and progressing, diagnose cultural risk and resilience factors, plan to implement cultural adaptations, implement cultural adaptations, and (re)evaluate client engagement and progress.
• Cultural Formulation Interview — DIAGNOSTIC_TEST
  The Cultural Formulation Interview is a 16-item semi-structured interview that is organized into four sections: (i) definition of the problem; (ii) perceptions of cause, context, and support; (iii) factors affecting self-coping and past help seeking; and (iv) factors affecting current help seeking.
• Modular Approach to Therapy for Children — BEHAVIORAL
  The Modular Approach to Therapy for Children is a modular evidence-based treatment for youths, aged 5-15, with anxiety, depression, trauma, and disruptive behaviors.

Study Details

Incompatibility between evidence-based treatments (EBTs) and the cultural values, practices, and minoritized experiences of Latine youth and families contributes to racial-ethnic disparities in mental health treatment engagement and consequently mental health outcomes. The proposed study aims to develop and pilot a novel tool - the Culturally Responsive Assessment, Formulation, and Treatment Tool (CRAFTT) - for helping clinicians decide whether, when, and how to culturally adapt EBTs for individual Latine youth clients and thereby improve the cultural compatibility of EBTs for this underserved population. Completion of this study will result in a functional decision support tool designed to improve the quality and effectiveness of mental health services for Latine youths and promote mental health equity.

Key Dates

First listed

Feb 20, 2026

Start date

Jan 31, 2027

Status verified

Feb 2026

Primary completion

Jul 31, 2028

Completion

Sep 30, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment

64 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

• Experimental: CFI + MATCH + CRAFTT
  Clinicians in this arm will assess for cultural factors that may influence treatment engagement or progress using the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), treat psychopathology using the Modular Approach to Treatment for Children (MATCH), and make cultural adaptation decisions using CRAFTT
• Active Comparator: CFI + MATCH
  Clinicians in this arm will assess for cultural factors that may influence treatment engagement or progress using the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), treat psychopathology using the Modular Approach to Treatment for Children (MATCH), and make cultural adaptation decisions using their best clinical judgement

Primary Outcome Measure

DSM-5 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure [ Time Frame: Baseline, and then quarterly until the end of treatment (approximately 1 year after baseline) ]

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