School-Based Mental Health Program Implementation in Uganda

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Teacher Mental Health Knowledge; Teacher Skills in Addressing Child Mental Health Problem

Treatments: Behavioral: ParentCorps

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01857388

13-00362

Details and patient eligibility

About

Implementation of an adapted ParentCorps program in Ugandan schools will improve school mental health service resources, teachers' knowledge about child mental health, and teachers' classroom behavioral management and parent involvement skills.

Full description

Participating schools are randomly assigned to a 6-month long school-based intervention or to a wait-list control group. The intervention focuses on improving teacher's classroom behavioral management practices, parent engagement, and child mental health knowledge.

Teachers are assessed at the beginning and the end of the study, and again after 6 months of intervention. Teachers' parent engagement, mental health knowledge, and behavioral practices in the classroom are assessed through observations and teacher ratings.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Early childhood teachers

Exclusion criteria

• Not early childhood teachers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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79 participants in 2 patient groups

ParentCorps

Experimental group

Description:

Teachers from Intervention schools will receive ParentCorps training and support.

Treatment:

Behavioral: ParentCorps

Wait List Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Teachers from control schools will not receive training and support in Year 1, but will receive training and support in Year 2.