NCT04383327.
| Study name | School‐based mental health effectiveness study |
| Methods |
Study design: cluster‐RCT Country: Uganda |
| Participants | School teachers and parents Inclusion criteria: a. for the school staff (teachers, head teachers): they must be in the recruited study schools and teaching in pre‐primary to primary 4 classrooms or holding the head teachers/administration leadership position in school. The inclusion criteria for Parent Leaders are: they must be at least 18 years old and have served as a Parent‐Teacher‐Association member or Parent Leader in the school for at least 1 year. b. for the PD/PDT programme implementers: they must have current employment with eligible partners (i.e. medical/mental health institutions, teacher training colleges), with professional experiences in teacher training or mental health training. c. for parents: caregivers must be at least 18 years old, their children must be enrolled in pre‐primary or primary 1 to 4 classes (or between 3 and 10 years old) in the recruited schools, and willing to have their child assessed by research staff. Parents and children will have diverse characteristics (e.g. randomly selected from school student lists). About 10% of families will be randomly selected from the student lists. The proposed study will be open to both men and women caregivers. Exclusion criteria: a. evidence of psychopathology or cognitive impairment severe enough to preclude giving consent, or completing the survey instruments or the focus group of the study; b. minors (aged < 18) will also be excluded. Additional criteria should be included as appropriate for the study design and risk. Stated purpose: to address EBI effectiveness and implementation knowledge gaps by providing a preventive EBI (ParentCorps‐ Professional Development; PD) that utilizes a task‐shifting and a scalable implementation model to promote early childhood students' mental health in a LMIC – Uganda |
| Interventions |
Interventions: Intervention 1: ParentCorps‐Professional Development (PD) + T‐Wellness ParentCorps‐Professional Development (PD): multi‐component school‐based intervention that promotes early childhood mental health and development. PD is a school‐based EBI and preventive mental health service provision model that supports teachers and school personnel to apply EBI strategies to promote young children's mental health. Teachers and PTAs (pre‐primary to 4th grade) will participate in a 3‐day ParentCorps‐PD training before the 1st school term. They will also receive 8 sessions (12 hours) of face‐to‐face group‐based coaching during the 1st and 2nd terms. Coaching sessions are to help teachers apply EBI strategies in their classrooms, engage families, and develop competencies. T‐Wellness: A brief teacher stress management psychoeducation package, adapted from EBIs including a half‐day workshop for common stress management and a half‐day for burnout management, and three follow‐up group support sessions (3 additional monthly 1‐hr wellness sessions for teachers as a group in each school, a total 15 hours of coaching). Intervention 2: ParentCorps‐Professional Development (PD) (only) Control: No intervention |
| Outcomes |
Participants'outcomes of interest for this review
Economic outcomes Nil Time points: baseline, post‐intervention (6 months and 18 months) |
| Starting date | January 2021 (estimated study start date) |
| Contact information | Keng‐Yen Huang, Keng‐Yen.Huang@nyulangone.org |
| Notes |
Source of funding: not specified Prospective trial registration number: NCT04383327 |