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Sports coaching and clubs to promote adolescent wellbeing in rural Nepal

Sports coaching and clubs to promote adolescent mental wellbeing in rural Nepal: A pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial - Sports-based Mental heAlth pRomotion for adolescenTs in Nepal (SMART)

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN15973986
Enrollment
640
Registered
2022-09-06
Start date
2022-09-15
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2023-09-04

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Conditions

Mental wellbeing Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Interventions

Randomisation and allocation to the intervention Four communities of approximately 1000 population (~160 adolescents aged 12-19) will be randomised to the intervention or control arm. Intervention cl

Sponsors

King's College London
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Any adolescent aged between 12-19 years old, in or out of school, married or unmarried living in the study clusters

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Adolescents who do not live in the study clusters (e.g. adolescents who live outside the clusters but are visiting friends/family in the study area at the time of the survey)

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Mental wellbeing measured using the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale at baseline and endpoint at 10 months

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
All mental health wellbeing outcomes will be measured pre-intervention at baseline and post-intervention at the 10-month endpoint 1. Self-efficacy measured using the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale 2. Self-esteem measured using the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale 3. Emotion regulation measured using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents 4. Social support measured using the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support 5. Support and empowerment of youth and attachment to the neighbourhood, measured using subscales of the Adolescents’ Developmental Assets in the Neighborhood Scale 6. Depressive symptoms measured using the Depression Self-Rating Scale 7. Anxiety symptoms measured using the Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment

Countries

Nepal

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 10, 2026