Evaluating the Hope@School Prevention Program

Karolinska Institute

Status: Begins enrollment in 10 months

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Other: Hope@School; Other: Treatment as usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06359262

KI-HAS-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This multi-center cluster-randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the feasibility, effectiveness and overall impact of the Hope@School (H@S) program by comparing mental health outcomes in students participating in the H@S program with students having only access to regular student health care (treatment as usual - TAU).

The primary objectives of the study are:

To determine if the H@S program is feasible, acceptable, usable and safe for students, families, teachers and school leaders To establish if the H@S program is associated with improvements in quality of life, everyday functioning, peer relations and general mental health.

Enrollment: 3,220 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 8 and 18 years
• Attends school included in the study
• Consents to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 8 and older than 18 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3,220 participants in 2 patient groups

Hope@School

Experimental group

Description:

The universal prevention program Hope@School. A digital platform with a number of tools that target mental health and wellbeing in children and adolescents.

Treatment:

Other: Hope@School

Treatment as usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Regular student health care in the schools

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as usual