Everyone Can Sing: A Feasibility Study of a Mental Health Promoting Intervention Among 0-3rd Grade Students

University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Everyone can sing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT06204029

23/24953

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to explore the feasibility of implementing and evaluating a class-based intervention in three Danish primary schools. The intervention includes class choir among all students in 0 to 3rd grade as part of the regular school schedule.

Full description

Approximately every fifth child in Denmark experience mental health problems, mental illness, or low levels of school thriving before the age of ten, and 15% of Danish adolescent are diagnosed with a mental disorder before they turn 18. The experience of mental health problems, low school thriving and mental illness in childhood and adolescence is a severe risk factor for school segregation, low grades, school dropout and mental illness in youth and adulthood. There is therefore an urgent need for feasible and effective mental health promoting and preventive interventions from early childhood. High-quality music singing (e.g. choir singing) can promote well-being, social inclusion in school, and positive social relations among school-children, which are key prerequisites for strengthening children's mental health. However, the potential benefits of this type of intervention have not been evaluated in a Danish context. Therefore, we developed the Alle kan synge (AKS; in English: Everyone can sing) intervention as a prototype for implementation and dissemination.

The aim of this feasibility study is to explore the feasibility of implementing the AKS intervention in three Danish primary schools and assess feasibility of the evaluation design. Findings will provide knowledge on the critical aspects of the intervention, which may lead to a possible refinement of the AKS intervention, the implementation processes or evaluation design.

Enrollment: 910 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: All students in grades 0 to 3 (typically aged 5 to 10 years) in three different Danish elementary schools

Exclusion Criteria: None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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910 participants in 1 patient group

Everyone can sing

Experimental group

Description:

Students from 0-3rd grade receive class choir two lessons every week as part of their regular school schedule

Treatment:

Behavioral: Everyone can sing