Identifying child anxiety through schools

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Ongoing

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 7010

Inclusion Criteria

Schools:
1. Mainstream primary/junior in England with at least 2 classes with Year 4 pupils
2. A minimum of 40 Year 4 pupils on school roll

Classes:
1. Where schools have two or three Year 4 classes, all Year 4 classes will take part
2. Where schools have more than three Year 4 classes, three classes will be randomly selected to take part

Total population:
1. Children
1.1 Child is in Year 4 in a participating class
1.2 Child’s parent/carer has not opted out

2. Parents/carers
2.1 Parent/carer of a child in Year 4 in a participating class. Families will be asked to nominate one parent/carer to complete parent-report measures.

3. Teachers
3.1 Baseline: class teacher or member of support staff who works regularly with children in a participating class
3.2 Follow-up: participating child’s current class teacher/member of support staff who works regularly with them

Target population:
1. Children: Child screens positive (scores above the cut-off) on the 2-item parent-report child anxiety questionnaire at baseline
2. Parents/carers: Parent/carer of a child who screens positive (score above the cut-off) on the 2-item parent-report child anxiety questionnaire at baseline
3. Teachers: Class teacher or member of support staff who works regularly with a child who screens positive (scores above the cut-off) on the 2-item parent-report child anxiety questionnaire at baseline

Intervention (OSI) participants:
1. Parent/carer of a child in a school randomised to ‘Feedback and Intervention’
2. Child screened positive (scored above the cut-off on 2-item parent-report child anxiety questionnaire) at baseline and/or the parent/carer decides to take up the intervention offer
3. Where more than one child in a household or family takes part in the trial, the parent/carer will be offered the intervention for one child only.

Qualitative interviews:
1. Children: Child is in Year 4 in a participating class in a school allocated to ‘feedback and intervention’ and parent/carer provides consent
2. Parents/carers: Parent/carer of child in Year 4 in a participating class in a school allocated to ‘feedback and intervention’
3. School staff: Member of staff in a participating school in a school allocated to ‘feedback and intervention’
4. Other key stakeholders: Governor in participating school or representative of another key stakeholder organisation who has a professional role within or related to a participating school, for example a mental health service provider, local authority, local policy maker organisations (e.g. local public health team)
5. Members of the research team involved in delivering the intervention: Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist who delivered and/or supervised the delivery of OSI as part of the trial

Exclusion Criteria

Schools: Schools with a current Mental Health Support Team” (as part of the DfE/NHS England initiative)
Children: Children who do not have sufficient English language or comprehension skills to answer questions, even with support, will not complete measures themselves
Parents/carers: Parents who do not have sufficient English language or comprehension skills to answer questions and/or take part in the intervention, even with support, will not take part

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method

Related Trials