SME(Sharing, Mind & Enjoyment) App for Adolescents

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health Wellness 1

Treatments: Behavioral: SME App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03361475

SPH-MHP-TWGH01

Details and patient eligibility

About

SME (Sharing, Mind, Enjoyment) App, A Pilot Project is part of the Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults, which aims at promoting sharing, mind and enjoyment and enhancing mental wellbeing. The Mental Wellness Project is financially supported by the Health Care and Promotion Fund from Food and Health Bureau and led by the School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong (HKU). This project primarily aims to promote the SME related behaviors of adolescents through the App. The evaluation will be conducted during the programme implementation stage. The effectiveness of the intervention, as well as the level of participation and ratings for the intervention, will be evaluated.

Full description

A cluster randomized controlled trial design was adopted. The major subjects of SME (Sharing, Mind, Enjoyment) App Pilot Project RCT Study are 300-500 middle school students. Two schools will be recruited and randomized to each group. Schools will either be assigned to app intervention group or waitlist control group. The students in the intervention group will use the App for one month. Daily and Weekly tasks related to SME will be assigned through the App, and information related to mental health will be provided. The waitlist control group will be able to use the App after we finish all the assessments.

There will then be 4 assessments (pre-intervention, immediate post-intervention, one month and three months after) to evaluate the effects of the intervention programme. In the assessments, students will be asked to complete a questionnaire to measure the changes in SME (sharing, mind and enjoyment) related behaviors, changes of knowledge and attitude towards the anxiety disorder, changes of happiness and well-being.

Enrollment: 408 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students (major subjects) (intervention group and control group):

  1. Chinese speaking
  2. Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
  3. Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
  4. Can use the smartphone
  5. Form 1 to 4 students

• Parents (intervention group):

  1. Chinese speaking
  2. Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
  3. Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
  4. Can use the smartphone
  5. With at least one child between form 1 to 4

• School principals/teachers/community partners (intervention group):

  1. Principals/teachers of intervention school or staffs of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals in partnership with HKU research team, who organize plan or implement the project
  2. Adults aged 18 or above
  3. Chinese speaking
  4. Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
  5. Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire/individual in-depth interviews completion

Exclusion criteria

• Students who cannot read Chinese

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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408 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention school

Experimental group

Description:

One school workshop and a small talk were conducted first at the beginning of the programme, which was to promote SME and introduce the function of SME App for students, followed by downloading and using immediately to connect family members, then let them continue to use for one month with system reminder.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SME App

Waitlist control schools

No Intervention group

Description:

The intervention won't be provided during evaluation period and will be provided after the evaluation period