"EspaiJove.Net"- a School-based Intervention Program to Promote Mental Health in Adolescent Population

Centre d'Higiene Mental Les Corts

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stigma, Social; Mental Health

Treatments: Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03215654

PI15/01613

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of 3 sensitivity and mental health literacy programs for young students in the increase of mental health knowledge, to help seeking and reducing the stigma in order to prevent mental disorders and to reduce symptoms.

Design: Multicenter randomized clinical trial school-based during 12 months follow up. Setting: Educational centers of secondary education (E.S.O) (public or private) of Barcelona. Subjects: 408 students between 13 and 18 years old who attend 3rt ESO in 8 randomized schools of Barcelona.

Interventions: 3 intervention groups of ascending intensity: 1) Sensitivity Program Mental Health (SP)(1h); 2) Mental Health Literacy Program (MHLP) (6h); 3) MHLP more Stigma Reduction (ER) ( MHLP+RE)(7h).Control group: waiting List.

Measures of results:1) Mental Health Literacy; 2) Stigma associated with mental health; 3) Mental Symptoms and Positive Mental Health (SDQ); 4) Bullying and Ciberbullying; 5) Quality of life (E-5D); 6) Intent to change; 7) Help Seeking (AHSQ); 8) Use of Health Services and Treatment and 9) Satisfaction.

Enrollment: 432 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescents students who are currently attending the 3rd grade of E.S.O (corresponding to 9th grade in U.S.) in Barcelona, Spain;
• Sign the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Attending any special education school;
• Students with special educational needs who attend any school;
• Not understanding Spanish and Catalan language.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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432 participants in 4 patient groups

Sensitization Program (SP)

Experimental group

Description:

Include the concepts of mental health and mental disorder, healthy and risky behaviors of mental health, and use of health services. Duration 1 hour.

Treatment:

Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program

Mental Health Literacy Program (MHL)

Experimental group

Description:

MHL module contents are: 1) Our emotions. Definitions of mental health and mental disorders. Mental health multidisciplinary team network; 2) Healthy and risky behaviors of mental health; 3) Social skills and antisocial behavior, bullying and cyberbullying; 4) Anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal behaviors; 5) Eating and behavioral disorders; 6) Substance abuse (alcohol and cannabis), an psychotic disorder. Duration 6 hours.

Treatment:

Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program

MHL more Stigma Reduction (ER)

Experimental group

Description:

Includes the six teaching units of MHL and a first contact presentation with lived experience of any mental disorder, who will be delivered by a voluntary member of Activament Catalunya Associació (http://www.activament.org/es), a non-profit group specialized in reducing stigma. Duration 7 hours.

Treatment:

Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group will be a waiting list condition and they will receive the full program of 7h at the next year of academic course