Mental health and wellbeing Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Current interventions as of 30/08/2019:
1. Mindfulness-based skills, emphasising the mind, the body and the world, delivered by trained schools professionals through five minute daily exercises from J
Sponsors
University College London
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Primary schools: 1. Willing to deliver an intervention to one or two year four classes, and one or two year five classes Secondary schools: 1. Willing to deliver an intervention to three year seven classes and three year eight classes All schools: Current inclusion criteria as of 30/08/2019: 1. Willing to be allocated to Mindfulness, Relaxation, Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing or continue with usual provision. 2. Willing to allocate five minutes per day for young people to practice mindfulness and relaxation skills for the spring term 3. Willing to allocate eight one hours lessons to deliver the Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing programme over the spring term. 4. Able to attend training in one of locations described above 5. Able to send teachers of delivery groups to training after October half term 2018/2019 6. Sign a MOU, data sharing agreement and provide pupil lists to the research team Previous inclusion criteria: 1. Willing to be allocated to Mindfulness, Relaxation, Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing or continue with usual provision. 2. Willing to allocate ten minutes per day for young people to practice mindfullness and relaxation skills for the spring term 3. Willing to allocate eight one hours lessons to deliver the Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing programme over the spring term. 4. Within the area of either London, Birmingham and the Midlands, Bristol, Bath and Somerset, Durham and the North East or Manchester 5. Able to send teachers of delivery groups to training after October half term 2018/2019 6. Sign a MOU, data sharing agreement and provide pupil lists to the research team Pupils: 1. Be in year groups 4, 5, 7 or 8 2. Parental consent and young person assent provided
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Schools: 1. Pupil referral units (PRU)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Current primary outcome measures as of 30/08/2019: Mindfulness and Relaxation Interventions: 1. Emotional difficulties will be measured using the online Short Mood and Feelings questionnaire (Angold, 1995) at baseline, 3-6 months and 9-12 months post intervention Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing intervention: 1. Intended help seeking will be collected online and measured at baseline, 3-6 months, and 9-12 months post intervention. General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (Wilson et al., 2011) Previous primary outcome measures: Mindfulness and Relaxation Interventions: 1. Emotional difficulties will be measured using the online Short Mood and Feelings questionnaire (Angold, 1995) at baseline, 6 months and 12 months post intervention Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing intervention: 1. Intended help seeking will be collected online and measured at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months post intervention. General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (Wilson et al., 2011) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Current as of 30/08/2019: Secondary measures will be measured at baseline, 3-6 months and 9-12 months post intervention Previous: Secondary measures will be measured at baseline, 6 months and 12 months post intervention Mindfulness and Relaxation intervention: 1. Positive wellbeing will be measured using the Huebner Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS) (Huebner, 1991) 2. Behavioural problems will be measured using the Me & My Feelings questionnaire (Deighton et al., 2013) 3. Support from school staff will be measured using the Student Resilience Survey (SRS) (Sun & Stewart, 2007) - School Connection subscale 4. Quality of life will be measured using the Child Health Utility 9D quality of life measure 5. The support and services received by participants will be measured using the short client service receipt of intervention (adapted for young people) Strategies for Safety and Wellbeing intervention: 1. Positive wellbeing will be measured using the Huebner Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS) (Huebner, 1991) 2. Emotional difficulties will be measured using the Short Mood and Feelings questionnaire (SMFQ) (Angold, 1995) 3. Behavioural problems will be measured using the Me & My Feelings questionnaire (Deighton et al., 2013) 4. Support from school staff will be measured using the Student Resilience Survey (SRS) (Sun & Stewart, 2007) - School Connection subscale 5. Mental health first aid Mental Health First Aid Intentions and Behaviours questionnaire (Hart et al., 2016) 6. Quality of life will be measured using the Child Health Utility 9D quality of life measure 7. The support and services received by participants will be measured using the short client service receipt of intervention (adapted for young people) 8. Stigma-related mental health knowledge of secondary school-age participants will be measured using the Mental Health Knowledge Schedule (MAKS) (Evans-Lacko et al., 2010) 9. Reported and intended behavioural discrimination of secondary school-age participants will be measu | — |
Countries
England, Scotland, United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactAbigail Thompson
Outcome results
None listed