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Statistical analysis plan for a cluster randomised controlled trial to compare screening, feedback and intervention for child anxiety problems to usual school practice: identifying Child Anxiety Through Schools-identification to intervention (iCATS-i2i)

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Falko Sniehotta

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© 2024, The Author(s).Background: The Identifying Child Anxiety Through Schools-identification to intervention (iCATS-i2i) trial is being conducted to establish whether ‘screening and intervention’, consisting of usual school practice plus a pathway comprising screening, feedback and a brief parent-led online intervention (OSI: Online Support and Intervention for child anxiety), bring clinical and health economic benefits compared to usual school practice and assessment only — ‘usual school practice’, for children aged 8–9 years in the following: (1) the ‘target population’, who initially screen positive for anxiety problems according to a two-item parent-report child anxiety questionnaire — iCATS-2, and (2) the ‘total population’, comprising all children in participating classes. This article describes the detailed statistical analysis plan for the trial. Methods and design: iCATS-i2i is a definitive, superiority, pragmatic, school-based cluster randomised controlled trial (with internal pilot), with two parallel groups. Schools are randomised 1:1 to receive either screening and intervention or usual school practice. This article describes the following: trial objectives and outcomes; statistical analysis principles, including detailed estimand information necessary for aligning trial objectives, conduct, analyses and interpretation when there are different analysis populations and outcome measures to be considered; and planned main analyses, sensitivity and additional analyses. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov ISRCTN76119074. Registered on 4 January 2022


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Author(s): Ball S, Reardon T, Creswell C, Taylor L, Brown P, Ford T, Gray A, Hill C, Jasper B, Larkin M, Macdonald I, Morgan F, Pollard J, Sancho M, Sniehotta FF, Spence SH, Stainer J, Stallard P, Violato M, Ukoumunne OC

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Trials

Year: 2024

Volume: 25

Issue: 1

Online publication date: 17/01/2024

Acceptance date: 19/12/2023

Date deposited: 29/01/2024

ISSN (print): 1745-6215

Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd

URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07898-6

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-023-07898-6

Data Access Statement: Datasets and study materials generated during the current study will be made available in a public repository.

PubMed id: 38233861


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