Mental Health Training for Elementary Teachers Through Tele-education and Its Impact on the School Atmosphere
试验速览
- 阶段
- 早期 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 213
- 主要终点
- Knowledge in Child and Adolescents Mental Health, beliefs and attitudes in Child Mental Health
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to create a web-based interactive educational environment to train elementary teachers, to identify children and adolescents in need of specialized mental health care and give them some advises in managing problematic children in class. After the creation of such an educational environment the psychoeducational project was tested in order to verify it's effectiveness.
详细描述
Objectives: To develop and test the efficacy of a computer-based training to elementary school teachers of the most common mental health problems.
Outcomes: (a)early identification of the most common mental health problems among children and adolescents, (b)teacher's acquirement of manage skills to better deal with behavior problems and (c)teacher's acquisition of important knowledge to refer students to treatment when necessary.
Method: This research includes two steps: a pilot project (already implemented, whose data will be presented here) and a randomized clinical trial intervention (that will be implemented in a few months).
- Pilot project, without control group - Comprehended six sessions of educational videos covering basic concepts of mental health stigma and the main disorders that affects children and adolescents followed by discussion forums, quizzes and a conclusion web conferencing with a specialist.
- A randomized controlled trial with a sample of 176 teachers from nine elementary schools were randomly divided in three groups: a web-based interactive educational group (WBIE), a text and video-based educational group (TWBE) and a waiting list group (WL).
Outcome measures: knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of teachers in mental health and satisfaction with the training received.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Primary Public Schools of Campos do Jordão City
- •Internet Access
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Knowledge in Child and Adolescents Mental Health, beliefs and attitudes in Child Mental Health
时间窗: baseline and 1 month (just after the intervention)
Questions about knowledge, beliefs and attitudes in Child and Adolescents Mental Health applied before and after the intervention.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Euripedes C. Miguel
Full Professor
University of Sao Paulo