Partnerships Between Schools and Public Mental Health Departments: Investigation of Multi-professional Interventions for Children Aged 3 to 8 With Mental Health Issues (Parpsych-Ed)
- Conditions
- School Difficulties Associated With Mental Health Problems
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Questionnaires at the start and end of the school year
- Registration Number
- NCT04300712
- Lead Sponsor
- GCS pour la recherche et la formation en sante mentale
- Brief Summary
Local partnerships between schools (preschool and elementary) and mental health public services are implemented in seven sites in France. They aim to improve recognition of difficulties related to mental health problems and to provide interventions to 3 to 8 years-old pupils in need. Our hypothesis that these local partnerships and interventions enhance the role of school in supporting good mental health and wellbeing of all children and the trajectories of children with mental health service needs. Theses also facilitate community support. One of them, early-interventions involve caregivers. Our objective is to enhance knowledge of the unmet mental healthcare need at school and to explore for whom, in which local context and how partnerships and early intervention work.
- Detailed Description
Teachers are legitimately concerned about children that encounter mental health problems. Mental healthcare might be indicated. Because of internal and external barriers of treatment, they could remain inaccessible for many children in need. School staff should not try to diagnose conditions. However, collaborative interventions delivered by school and mental healthcare staffs in association with other stakeholders as parents and associations should ensure clear systems and processes in place for identifying possible mental health problems and support children and their parents. Local partnership and early interventions will be elaborated within focus groups bringing together all stakeholders and will be experimented in 7 French sites (preschool, primary school and local public health service) thereafter. These complex interventions will be evaluated through mixed-methods including qualitative case studies and a pragmatic trial. This feasibility study will produce a set of findings that will permit to argue conceptual framework of partnership and early intervention, to provide guidelines to implement these in France considering children needs, local context, all stakeholders acceptance and public health efficacy.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2000
- Attending pre- and elementary schools involved in the ParpsychEd partnerships.
- Absence of parents and/or child consent.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Tracking of the children with difficulties Questionnaires at the start and end of the school year All parents and teachers will respond to the questionnaires and the beginning and end of school year which is not done in the routine for tracking the children in difficulty.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method number of 3 to 8 years old children identified with mental health services need 24 months Evolution of the number of 3 to 8 years old children identified with mental health services
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) 12 months Changes in the impact supplement and the follow-up questions - parents and teachers
Parent refusal rate to let their child benefit of all responses 12 months Parent refusal rate to let their child benefit of all responses
Healthcare access, barriers to treatment, intervention acceptance 12 months Healthcare access, barriers to treatment, intervention acceptance
Parents refusal rate to plan appointment in public health services as indicated after the intervention 18 months Parents refusal rate to plan appointment in public health services as indicated after the intervention
Mental health and mental health services representation and use 18 months Changes in the mental health representations of parents, teachers and others professionnals
Parent refusal rate to let their child benefit of the early intervention 12 months Parent refusal rate to let their child benefit of the early intervention
Trial Locations
- Locations (6)
Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne
🇫🇷Paris, France
EPSM Val de Lys
🇫🇷Vieille chapelle, Pas De Calais, France
Fondation Bon Sauveur de la Manche
🇫🇷Picauville, France
Centre Hospitalier de Saint Denis
🇫🇷Saint-Denis, France
EPSM de Guadeloupe
🇫🇷Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe, France
EPSM Barthélémy Durand
🇫🇷Grigny, Essone, France