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teenAID - Evaluating first aid training for students in Year 8

Not Applicable
Conditions
Adolescent Mental Health
Youth Suicide Prevention
Adolescent Physical illness and injury
Mental Health - Suicide
Mental Health - Depression
Mental Health - Anxiety
Respiratory - Asthma
Emergency medicine - Resuscitation
Injuries and Accidents - Fractures
Inflammatory and Immune System - Allergies
Registration Number
ACTRN12621001589875
Lead Sponsor
niversity of Melbourne
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot yet recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1024
Inclusion Criteria

Schools to be included in the trial must be public high schools located in greater Perth Western Australia and have at least 10% of staff with Youth Mental Health First Aid accreditation. Schools must not have received any mental health first aid training for students in their current Year 8 cohort. All Year 8 students from host schools will be eligible to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

Schools that do not have least 10% of staff with Youth Mental Health First Aid accreditation.
Schools with year 8 cohorts of less than 160 students to ensure maintenance of participation at 12 month follow-up. Schools with an ICSEA of more or less than 1 standard deviation than the mean (of the list of those eligible) to try to limit variability between randomised pairs.

tMHFA is not designed as a suicide postvention program. If a recent suicide has occurred in a school, the appropriateness of running the tMHFA program will be assessed before formally recruiting the school.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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