None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-week intervention program on mental health and wellbeing of Year 6 students transitioning to Year 7. The project will involve 300 Year 6 students; from primary schools located within 2 km radius from the ACU Strathfield Psychology Clinic, who will participate in an 8 week, school based transition program "I'll be Ok in Year 7" and 300 Year 6 students, who will attend a one-off information session. This project is being conducted by Ms Ewa Geba MAPS and will form the basis for her Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, under the supervision of Dr Baljinder K. Sahdra and Dr. Philip Parker. The results will inform future research and service delivery of ACU Strathfield Psychology Clinic; and will be published in a scientific journal.
Interventions
SBTIMH - Stage 2 intervention will take place in 2024-2025 (Term 2 and 4).
This trial is an interventional RCT with control group, designed as a continuation of Stage 1 (2-arm interventional study with no control group) trial, scheduled to be completed in Term 4/ 2021, registered as ACTRN12621001254886
Participants will include 600 Year 6 students from 12 local schools. The schools will be randomly allocated to 1. intervention or 2. control group:
1. Intervention Group (n=300), will consist of Y
SBTIMH - Stage 2 intervention will take place in 2024-2025 (Term 2 and 4). This trial is an interventional RCT with control group, designed as a continuation of Stage 1 (2-arm interventional study with no control group) trial, scheduled to be completed in Term 4/ 2021, registered as ACTRN12621001254886 Participants will include 600 Year 6 students from 12 local schools. The schools will be randomly allocated to 1. intervention or 2. control group: 1. Intervention Group (n=300), will consist of Year 6 students, who will participate in the 8 week school based intervention program (A or B) identified as the most effective in Stage 1 (See Registration ACTRN12621001254886 for more details). Sessions will be delivered during school term/time by provisional psychologists (ACU Clinical Psychology Masters students, completing their placement at the ACU Strathfield Psychology Clinic in 2022/23), under supervision of the applicant Ewa Geba, who is an AHPRA registered clinical psychologist and the PBA approved supervisor. The 8 week resilience program covers topics including coping with changes, time management and problem solving, assertive communication, maintaining friendships and making friends, self-care and how to improve wellbeing, difficulties with being the small fish in a big pong, self compassion, self esteem and mindfulness, etc. A complete breakdown of this is available in record ACTRN12621001254886. Sessions will be delivered face to face on-site or via Zoom. Session attendance checklist will be used to monitor adherence to the intervention. Additional details regarding the number and duration of sessions, the content of each session and the total duration of the intervention will be updated once Stage 1 is complete.
Sponsors
Australian Catholic University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
11 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Participants will include 600 Year 6 students and their parents from 12 mainstream primary schools (public and non-public), located in Sydney Inner West Metropolitan Area. Child participants must be enrolled in Year 6 in 2023 or 2024 Parent participants (1 per child) must be must be proficient in English, at the level allowing them to complete the questionnaires.
Exclusion criteria
No participants will be excluded, unless parents/guardians do not consent. Selective schools will not be included.
Outcome results
None listed