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Digital Strategies to Advance Help-Seeking - Aim 3

Digital Strategies to Advance Help-Seeking in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis

Who can join

Ages 12 to 29 · All sexes

Inclusion Criteria:

* Ages 12-29 years
* Living within a 50-mile radius of a US based AMP-SCZ site
* Able to complete the English language PQ-B on MHA's screening platform

About the study

This proposal aims to establish a Digital Laboratory focused on advancing help-seeking and expediting treatment initiation in youth ages 12-29 who are at Clinical High-Risk (CHR) for developing psychosis. Leveraging the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) model, this study will identify help-seeking subtypes in 25,000 youth who screen positive for psychosis-risk on Mental Health America's national online screening platform, iteratively develop and test theory and data-driven, personalized strategies to advance help-seeking using Micro-Randomized Trials and a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial, identify the most accurate CHR screening threshold in an online environment, and link youth, when indicated, to local clinical care via AMP-SCZ, a NIH funded national network of CHR programs throughout the US. This academic-industry partnership aims to curate one of the largest datasets of youth with CHR, and to develop effective strategies to enhance early help-seeking, in a population where help-seeking is critical and a significant barrier to care.

What is being tested

• Digital nudge (other)

Sponsor: Columbia University · Participants: 25,000 · Started: Feb 2, 2026

Contact the study team

• Michael Birnbaum, MD · Phone: 212-523-2154

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06774417

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Psychotic Disorders

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.