Sanctuary Youth Series Randomized Control Trial

Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Mental Health Literacy; Mental Health Help-Seeking; Mental Health

Treatments: Other: Mental Health Youth Series

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06693713

Pending

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries designed an eight-week program for youth ages 11-15 that uses games, short films, discussion questions, and exercises to engage with mental health and faith topics. The intervention package includes a facilitation guide and a guide for parents and caregivers. The program is intended to be conducted by an experienced facilitator, although there is no specific training provided for facilitators outside of the facilitation guide. The facilitator would lead groups of 11-15 year olds by leading games, showing the films, and facilitating discussion. The series is freely available on Sanctuary's website; individuals can access the material by creating an account, logging in, and downloading the course content. This RCT is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Youth Series course on improving youth's mental health literacy, knowledge, and attitudes towards help-seeking.

Full description

Churches will be recruited to the study based on social media sites and through Sanctuary's newsletter distribution lists. Churches who agree to participate in the study will be randomized to one of two groups, the Pilot Group that receives the 8-week series, and the Comparison Group, that does not receive the series. Both groups will be asked to complete a baseline survey and then a follow-up (end line) survey 8-weeks later. The results will be scored and compared between the two groups.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Youth between the ages of 11-18 attending a youth group that has been recruited to the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Youth outside of the age range that are not attending a youth group recruited to the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Pilot Group

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive an 8 week course on mental health knowledge. The series has been designed as an eight-week program for youth ages 11-15 that uses games, short films, discussion questions, and exercises to engage with mental health and faith topics.

Treatment:

Other: Mental Health Youth Series

Comparison Group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will not receive any mental health information, but will continue using their normal youth group material as planned. They will participate in the baseline and end line surveys.