Impact of Preventive Mental Health Programme on Social/Emotional Functioning and Resilience in Children in South Africa
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 150
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Mean change from baseline in resilience scores using the Child and Youth Resilience Measure
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of a mental health prevention and promotion programme delivered to children (ages 8 to 13) living in under-resourced communities in South Africa.
The main question it aims to answer is:
Does the programme increase resilience and improve psychological well-being?
Participants will be asked to attend the programme twice a week after school for a period of six weeks and complete a series of questionnaires.
Researchers will compare children who attended the programme to those who did not to see if the programme resulted in better social/emotional functioning and resilience.
详细描述
Although the well-being of vulnerable South African children is a significant public health concern, few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of mental health prevention and promotion interventions in low- and middle- income countries. Little Lions Child Coaching is a South African youth-led, community-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) that aims to normalise mental health conversations and empower the next generation to tap into their emotional resilience by providing accessible mental health support to children in under-resourced communities surrounding Cape Town.
The aim of this effectiveness study is to measure how a mental health prevention and promotion programme, designed and implemented by Little Lions Child Coaching, impacts the resilience and social/emotional functioning of children (ages 8 to 13) living in townships surrounding Cape Town.
Participants in the intervention condition will receive the programme twice a week after school for a period of six weeks to boost their emotional awareness, confidence, coping skills and resilience. Resilience scores will be compared to a control group.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Investigator)
盲法说明
The researchers involved in data collection after the intervention will be masked.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 8 Years 至 13 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Between 8 and 13 years old
- •Fluent in Xhosa and/or English
- •Lives in one of the following communities in Cape Town, South Africa: Khayelitsha, Langa, or Mfuleni
排除标准
- •Younger than 8 years old or older than 13 years old
- •Do not have a strong understanding of the language of instruction (i.e., Xhosa/English)
- •Lives in an area outside of Khayelitsha, Langa, or Mfuleni
结局指标
主要结局
Mean change from baseline in resilience scores using the Child and Youth Resilience Measure
时间窗: At baseline and in 6 weeks
Higher scores on the Child and Youth Resilience Measure indicate greater resilience. The minimum score is 17 and the maximum score is 51. A t-test will be used to determine whether the control versus intervention group had significantly different mean scores on the Child and Youth Resilience measure after the intervention relative to the baseline assessment.
次要结局
未报告次要终点