None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Research suggests that there are an insufficient number of services available to help the large number of Australians who experience mental illness. Therefore the focus should be on prevention. The internet has been shown to be an effective way of delivering mental health education and prevention in schools. One such internet delivered intervention is the Managing Stress program (from ‘THIS WAY UP Schools’ a sector of CRUfAD), which has previously been evaluated in a large RCT with an adolescent population (van Vliet and Andrews, 2009). The current research aims to address the need for early intervention by replicating van Vliet and Andrews (2009) study in evaluating the effects of the Managing Stress online program for children in year 5 of primary school.
Interventions
An online Managing Stress program, which is designed to teach students how to recognise the symptoms of anxiety and depression, develop skills in thought challenging, describe positive ways to cope with anxiety and depression, identify effective coping resources, master structured problem solving, and use skills and knowledge to act effectively to help themselves and others. The effectiveness of the course has been previously evaluated with junior high school students with positive results (van
An online Managing Stress program, which is designed to teach students how to recognise the symptoms of anxiety and depression, develop skills in thought challenging, describe positive ways to cope with anxiety and depression, identify effective coping resources, master structured problem solving, and use skills and knowledge to act effectively to help themselves and others. The effectiveness of the course has been previously evaluated with junior high school students with positive results (van Vliet & Andrews, 2009). The course contains 6 lessons about managing stress (designed to be completed once per week for 6 weeks, which fits into one school term). Each lesson is to be completed at school under the guidance of the teacher. Each lesson takes on average 30 minutes to complete and is accompanied with worksheets and activities, which take on average 15 minutes to complete. The lessons are sequential, they must be completed in order of 1 to 6.
Sponsors
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
10 Years to 11 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Must be in year 5 of primary school in Australia.
Exclusion criteria
Students in years 4 or below or 6 and above in the Australian school system. Students who are home-schooled.
Outcome results
None listed