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
- Conditions
- Mental and Behavioural DisordersMental 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
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
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
Name Time Method 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
Name Time Method