On Top of Everything

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Youth; Mindfulness; Stress; Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Modified MBSR programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04610333

15092020

Details and patient eligibility

About

Our primary aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher training programme to teach mindfulness as part of regular classroom teaching in the total population of students in Danish upper secondary schools and schools of health and social care, respectively, on students' self-reported mental health at six-month follow-up.

Our secondary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher training programme to teach mindfulness in a vulnerable subgroup of students on their self-reported mental health at three and six months after baseline.

Full description

The study is designed as a pragmatic cluster randomised two-arm trial including 43 Danish schools (30 upper secondary schools and 13 schools of health and social care). The schools included a total of 76 school teachers for teacher training (44 teachers from upper secondary schools and 32 teachers from schools of health and social care). Each included teacher will be asked to recruit a class of students (15-30 students) to test the effectiveness of the modified MBSR programme (in total approx. 1.000 students).

Enrollment: 992 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All students in the enrolled school classes

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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992 participants in 2 patient groups

School teacher training

Experimental group

Description:

Teacher training programme: * MBSR according to international standards (2.5 hours group session once a week in 8 weeks; a silence retreat day; and 45-60 minutes homework six days a week). Content in accordance with MBSR curriculum. * Four-day residental course * 3 x 2 seminar days Modified MBSR programme delivered to the students: - 1hour group session once a week in 10 weeks taught by the educated teachers on class

Treatment:

Behavioral: Modified MBSR programme

Usual practice

No Intervention group