A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers

Conditions

Mental health Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Judi Kidger, Nicholas Turner, William Hollingworth, Rhiannon Evans, Sarah Bell et al. (16 authors)

PLoS Medicine2021-11-1131 citations

10.1371/journal.pmed.1003847

Mental health support and training to improve secondary school teachers’ well-being: the WISE cluster RCT

Judi Kidger, Rhiannon Evans, Sarah Bell, Harriet Fisher, Nicholas Turner et al. (16 authors)

Public Health Research2021-11-0111 citations

10.3310/phr09120

A cluster randomised controlled trial of the Wellbeing in Secondary Education (WISE) Project – an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers: protocol for an integrated process evaluation

Rhiannon Evans, Rowan Brockman, Jillian Powell, Sarah Bell, Sarah Harding et al. (15 authors)

Trials2018-05-0469 citations

10.1186/s13063-018-2617-4

Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers - the WISE (Wellbeing in Secondary Education) study.

Kidger J, Evans R, Tilling K, Hollingworth W, Campbell R, Ford T, Murphy S, Araya R, Morris R, Kadir B, Moure Fernandez A, Bell S, Harding S, Brockman R, Grey J, Gunnell D.

2016-10-1817 citations

10.1186/s12889-016-3756-8

Interventions

Twelve schools will receive the intervention and a further twelve will form a comparison group and will continue with usual practice. Each intervention school will receive:

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The unit of randomisation is schools. The inclusion criteria are all state mainstream secondary schools within the relevant local authorities that did not take part in the pilot. Within participating schools, all teachers are eligible for inclusion, and all students who are in year 8 at the beginning of the study, whose parents have not withdrawn consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: For schools: 1. Fee paying schools 2. Special schools (e.g., for those with learning disabilities) 3. Pupil referral units 4. Schools that were pilot schools 5. Schools already participating in other, similarly intensive, research studies (healthy schools teams will advise on this) 6. Schools already delivering MHFA training For teachers: anyone who does not consent. For students: anyone who is not in year 8, anyone who does not consent, and anyone whose parents have withdrawn consent.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Teachers' scores on the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) measured at baseline, one year later and two years later	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The secondary outcomes will be measured at baseline, one year later (teacher outcomes only) and two years later (teacher and student outcomes): 1. Teachers' scores on the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) 2. Teachers' self-reported absence in the previous four working weeks 3. School-level teacher absence over the previous academic year 4. Teacher self-reported presenteeism over the previous four working weeks 5. Year 10 students' scores on the WEMWBS 6. Year 10 student total scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) self-report version 7. School-level student attainment in statutory exams 8. School-level student attendance over the previous academic year	—

Measure

Time frame

The secondary outcomes will be measured at baseline, one year later (teacher outcomes only) and two years later (teacher and student outcomes): 1. Teachers' scores on the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8) 2. Teachers' self-reported absence in the previous four working weeks 3. School-level teacher absence over the previous academic year 4. Teacher self-reported presenteeism over the previous four working weeks 5. Year 10 students' scores on the WEMWBS 6. Year 10 student total scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) self-report version 7. School-level student attainment in statutory exams 8. School-level student attendance over the previous academic year

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Countries

England, United Kingdom, Wales

Outcome results

None listed