Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally Implemented in Schools to Improve and Promote Mental Health for Teenagers
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Anxiety Symptoms
- Sponsor
- Kronikgune
- Enrollment
- 4460
- Locations
- 5
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in mental well-being
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Adolescence is a period of many physical, mental, emotional, and social changes. It is also associated with risk behaviour conducts. Nonetheless, not all youths under disadvantage, adversity, or exposure to risk factors experience negative mental health outcomes. The concept of RESILIENCE provides one possible explanation for the ability of some individuals to maintain positive mental health. Resilience is thus the ability of an individual or community to adapt to life challenges or adversities while maintaining mental health and well-being. The increasing prevalence of mental disorders amongst children (around 10-20% of young people) makes positive mental health promotion in schools necessary through intervention programmes. UPRIGHT (Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally implemented in schools to improve and promote mental Health for Teenagers) is a research and innovation project funded by the European Union´s Horizon 2020 programme (No. 754919). UPRIGHT general aim is to promote mental well-being and prevent mental disorders in youth by enhancing resilience capacities. It has been designed as a whole school approach addressing early adolescents, their families and the school community to finally create a real mental well-being culture at schools.
Detailed Description
The operational objectives of UPRIGHT are: * to co-create (involving adolescents, families, school staff, clinicians, policy makers) an innovative resilience holistic program in schools for the promotion of mental health in youth between 12 and 14 years; * to deploy an intervention in five different pan-European regions; * to better understand the natural history of mental disorders according to the resilience level and provide evidence of specific resilience factors promoting positive mental well-being longitudinally; * to demonstrate the effectiveness and predict future impact of an intervention in terms of improvement of quality of life, mental well-being, and academic performance, and a reduction of absenteeism and bullying cases; * to transfer the programme to Europe and beyond by disseminating the results and enabling innovative action plans for mental well-being in the youth. The UPRIGHT programme´s conceptual framework is structured in four different domains including skills for coping, efficacy, social and emotional learning and mindfulness practice. The intervention was developed by an innovative co-creation process (co-design, co-production and co-customization) participating five European regions representative of the cultural and socioeconomic variability (Lower Silesian in Poland, Basque Country in Spain, Trento in Italy, Denmark and Reykjavik capitol area in Iceland).
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adolescents from 1st grade (12-14 years of age) studying in the participating schools, their families and teachers of these adolescents.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in mental well-being
Time Frame: 1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.
The mental well-being is measured by the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS-14) scale in adolescents, families and teachers. This is a 14-item scale with 5 response categories.
Change in resilience capacities for adolescents
Time Frame: 1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.
The resilience is measured by the Resilience Scale for Adolescents (READ-28) for adolescents and designed as a 28-items scale with 5 response categories.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in the quality of life of adolescents(1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.)
- Change in school resilience capacities(1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.)
- Change in perceived stress(1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.)
- Change in the cases of bullying, substance use, violence and injuries(1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.)
- Change in the incidence of anxiety(1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.)
- Change in resilience capacities for adults(1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.)
- Change in the incidence of depression(1st wave: Month 9 (baseline), Month 18 and Month 30. 2nd wave: Month 21 (baseline), Month 30 and Month 42.)