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Promoting mental health and wellbeing in schools: examining Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) and the Mental Health & High School Curriculum Guide (The Guide) in English secondary schools

Not Applicable
Conditions
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Mental health and wellbeing
Registration Number
ISRCTN17631228
Lead Sponsor
niversity College London
Brief Summary

2019 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31481370 protocol

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Ongoing
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
8640
Inclusion Criteria

Current inclusion criteria as of 29/07/2019:
Schools:
1. Be willing to deliver/have an intervention delivered to around 60 year 9 pupils in three delivery classes
2. Are able to allocate 1 hour per week to deliver in the intervention for 6 weeks in the spring term of 2018 or 2019
3. Fall under one of the four hubs: London and the South East; Manchester and the North West; Durham and the North East; Bath, Bristol and the South West
4. For The Guide only, be able to send teachers of delivery groups to training after October half term 2018/2019
5. Sign a Memorandum of Understanding, data sharing agreement and provide pupil lists to the research team

Pupils:
1. Be in Year 9
2. Parental consent and young person assent

Previous inclusion criteria:
Schools:
1. Be willing to deliver/have an intervention delivered to around 60 year 9 pupils in three delivery classes
2. Are able to allocate one hour per week to deliver in the intervention for 6 weeks in the spring term of 2018 or 2019
3. Fall under one of the five hubs: 1) London, 2) Birmingham and the Midlands, 3) Bristol, Bath and Somerset, 4) Durham and the North East, 5) Manchester
4. For The Guide only, be able to send teachers of delivery groups to training after October half term 2018/2019
5. Sign a Memorandum of Understanding, data sharing agreement and provide pupil lists to the research team

Pupils:
1. Be in Year 9
2. Parental consent and young person assent

Exclusion Criteria

Current exclusion criteria as of 29/07/2019:
Schools:
1. Not able to deliver/have an intervention delivered to around 60 year 9 pupils in three delivery classes
2. Unable to allocate one hour per week to deliver in the intervention for six weeks in the spring term of 2018 or 2019
3. Fall outside one of the four hubs: London and the South East; Manchester and the North West; Durham and the North East; Bath, Bristol and the South West
4. For the Guide only, unable to send teachers of delivery groups to training after October half term 2018/2019
5. Unable to sign a MOU, data sharing agreement or provide pupil lists to the research team
6. Be a primary school or alternative provision (e.g. pupil referral unit)

Pupils:
1. Not in Year 9
2. Parental consent and young person assent not provided

Previous exclusion criteria:
Schools:
1. Not able to deliver/have an intervention delivered to around 60 year 9 pupils in three delivery classes
2. Unable to allocate one hour per week to deliver in the intervention for six weeks in the spring term of 2018 or 2019
3. Fall outside one of the five hubs: 1) London, 2) Birmingham and the Midlands, 3) Bristol, Bath and Somerset, 4) Durham and the North East, 5) Manchester
4. For the Guide only, unable to send teachers of delivery groups to training after October half term 2018/2019
5. Unable to sign a MOU, data sharing agreement or provide pupil lists to the research team
6. Be a primary school or alternative provision (e.g. pupil referral unit)

Pupils:
1. Not in Year 9
2. Parental consent and young person assent not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Current primary outcome measure as of 29/07/2019:<br>For YAM: Emotional difficulties on the Short Mood and Feelings questionnaire (SMFQ) (Angold, 1995) collected online and measured at baseline, 3-6 months and 9-12 months post intervention<br><br>For The Guide: Help seeking (Wilson et al., 2011) collected online and measured at baseline, 3-6 months and 9-12 months post intervention<br><br>Previous primary outcome measure:<br>For YAM: Emotional difficulties on the Short Mood and Feelings questionnaire (SMFQ) (Angold, 1995) collected online and measured at baseline, 6 months and 12 months post intervention<br><br>For The Guide: Help seeking (Wilson et al., 2011) collected online and measured at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months post intervention
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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