AIM Cards Research Project
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Using the AIM cards when working with hard to reach adolescents using the Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT) approach: incorporating effective clinical practice and routine outcome monitoring
IRAS ID
169179
Contact name
Stephen Butler
Contact email
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Z6364106/2015/03/144, Data Protection Reference Number ; 15/0294, R & D
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
This study aims to explore the usefulness of an intervention tool (AMBIT AIM Cards) already being used by 5 adolescent mental health and 1 youth offending teams. The AMBIT AIM cards are a set of cards that have been developed to help clinicians support young people to identify their strengths, difficulties and to prioritise how to support them during intervention. The cards have numbers on which enable the young person to rate their difficulties at the start and end of intervention.
The study has two parts; part 1 includes separate interviews with young people and clinicians to explore their views of how helpful the tool has been to support therapeutic relationship and identify an intervention process. Interviews will be analysed by qualitative methods. The second part of the study aims to collate and analyse outcome data already collected by the teams through use of the cards and compare the data with other standardized routine outcome measures used by the teams. This part will be analysed by quantitative methods to explore if the cards are a useful outcome measure.
REC name
London - Riverside Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/LO/1080
Date of REC Opinion
30 Jul 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion