Stress-free Everyday LiFe for Children and Adolescents REsearch (SELFCARE)

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mindfulness; Children; Adolescent; Stress; Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: School teacher training /.b

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04208113

2016-051-000001/1145

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of a profound school teacher training programme to teach a mindfulness-based programme (.b) in Danish schools on the pupils self-reported mental well-being at seven months.

The secondary aims are to evaluate i) the effectiveness of the profound school teacher training programme to teach the .b-programme in Danish schools on the pupils self-reported mental well-being post intervention (at five months).

Full description

The study is a cluster randomised trial. From May 2018 - May 2019, we recruited the total of 110 Danish schools (27 schools from the Capital Region of Denmark, 18 schools from Region Zealand, 25 schools from Region of Southern Denmark, 30 schools from Central Denmark Region and 10 schools from Region of Northern Denmark).

The schools included the total of 191 school teachers for teacher training (56 teachers from the Capital Region of Denmark, 28 teachers from Region Zealand, 42 teachers from Region of Southern Denmark, 50 teachers from Central Denmark Region and 15 teachers from Region of Northern Denmark). Each included teacher will be asked to recruit a class of pupils (15-25 pupils) to test the effectiveness of the .b-programme (in total approx. 3000 pupils).

Enrollment: 1,774 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All pupils 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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1,774 participants in 2 patient groups

School teacher training /.b

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention is a multi-level, multi-component complex intervention. It consists of a school teacher training programme and the .b-programme to be delivered to pupils 11-15 years in the schools. The school teacher training programme consists of three parts: 1) the establishment of own mindfulness practice by participation in the eight week MBSR programme (2,5 hour group meeting once a week) and sustaining mindfulness with a regular formal daily practice; 2) completion of the four days .b residential course, and 3) completion of the 3x2-days seminars on relational competences and implementation issues regarding teaching .b (48 hours) The .b programme consists of well-described, weekly 40-60 minutes classroom sessions over 10 weeks. All the sessions have a specific theme, associated teachers' notes, power points and animations. The .b programme can only be delivered with fidelity by a trained .b teacher.

Treatment:

Behavioral: School teacher training /.b

Usual practice

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual practice