Sense of belonging and mental health and wellbeing Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
DESIGN
The study is a school-based trial in three countries. Three separate trials will be conducted concurrently in Portugal (PT), Czechia (CZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). Overall, these three paral
Sponsors
University of Birmingham
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
12 Years to 13 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Schools will be included as ‘trial schools’ if they: 1. Are a school in Portugal, Czechia or the UK who have classes of students aged 12-13 2. Agree to support the delivery of Lina as part of routine school activities in the 2025/26 academic year 3. Agree to the process of randomisation, with the understanding that classes which are randomly allocated to the control group will have to wait until the 2026/27 school year to implement Lina Individual young people will be included in the trial if: 1. They are 12-13 years old 2. They are part of a class with similarly aged students 3. Assent to the collection of personal data at key timepoints through the trial (baseline, 6-10 weeks post baseline, and 6 months post baseline)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Young people will be excluded from the trial if: 1. They have a parent or guardian who explicitly requests that they be opted out of the trial 2. They do not assent (personally) to the collection of their personal data as part of trial outcome measures Even if a young person, or a parent or guardian, requests that the young person be excluded from the study and they “opt out” of participation, the young person will still receive Lina as part of routine school activities. The “opt out” refers to the completion of the trial outcome measures and questionnaires only.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Sense of belonging/ class climate as measured by the Delaware School Climate Survey- Student (DSCS-S) at post-intervention (6-10 weeks after baseline) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The following is a list of core secondary outcome measures that will be collected across all three trials at post-intervention (6-10 weeks after baseline) and follow-up (6 months after baseline). All measures have been validated for use with adolescents, and in all 3 countries: 1. General well-being as measured using the WHO-5 2. Depression severity as measured using PHQ-8 3. Adolescents’ social anxiety experiences in the context of peer relations as measured by the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) 4. Loneliness as measured by UCLA Loneliness Scale 5. Children and adolescents’ social awareness competency as measured by the SSIS Social Emotional Learning Scale-brief version. Social Awareness subscale 6. Peer stigma as measured by Peer Mental Health Stigmatisation Scale-Revised (PMHSS-R) Stigma Awareness subscale 7. Youth general quality of life (as part of economic evaluation) as measured by EQ-5D-Y-3L 8. Measure of health and a tool to calculate QALYs for adolescents as measured by CHU-9D | — |
Countries
Czech Republic, England, Portugal, United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactKate;Onaiza WoodcocK;Qureshi
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Outcome results
None listed