teen Mental Health First Aid: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Adolescent Mental Health; Youth Suicide prevention; Mental Health - Suicide; Mental Health - Depression; Mental Health - Anxiety

• Registration Number: ACTRN12614000061639
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Melbourne

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-01-20
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 400

Inclusion Criteria

Schools to be included in the trial must be high schools located in the greater Melbourne region. Year 10 students from these schools will be involved in the research. We estimate conservatively that there will be 100 Year 10 students per school.

Exclusion Criteria

teen Mental Health First Aid is not designed as a suicide postvention program. If a recent suicide has occured in a school, the appropriateness of running the teen MHFA program will be assessed before formally recruiting the school.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
First Aid intentions will be measured using forced choice responses to a vignette describing a young person with depression and suicidal thoughts. Participants will be asked to asked to select which of 12 possible actions they would take towards the person in the vignette. The possible actions are to engage in different first aid actions. Response options are based on messages that are either consistent with the teen MHFA Action Plan (6 items, e.g. Ask John if he is thinking about suicide”) or distractor items that are contrary to the plan (6 items, e.g. Avoid talking about suicide, because it might put the idea in John’s head”). Response items are scored as a criterion- referenced test against the action plan. Participants will be able to respond 'other (please specify)'.[The outcome will be measured at three time points: baseline (before training begins), post-training (immediately after training) and follow-up (12 months after training).]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
First aid actions provided to a peer. This will be assessed using the first aid experiences questionnaire developed by Kitchener & Jorm for evaluations of Mental Health First Aid Training. It includes questions such Have you come across someone you thought might have a mental health problem or has experienced a mental health crisis? (Jorm, Kitchener, & Mugford, 2005).[At baseline (before training begins) and follow-up (12 months after training).];Confidence in supporting a peer. This will be assessed using a 5-point Likert-type scale where 1 = Not at all confident and 5 = Extremely confident.[The outcome will be measured at three time points: baseline (before training begins), post-training (immediately after training) and follow-up (12 months after training).]