Mental health literacy
Conditions
Interventions
One 50-minute session regarding mental health literacy will be delivered by school teacher. Topics covered in the session will be as follows: (1) mental illnesses being common, experienced by 1 in 5 p
(5) will be described using another animated film.(5) will also be taught through role-playing.
Participants in a control group will receive the session, after finishing the evaluation.
Sponsors
The University of Tokyo Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Students in public junior- and senior-high school.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Mental health literacy will be assessed as follows. (1) General knowledge about mental health and illnesses will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire (Yamaguchi et al., 2020). Each correct answer will be scored as 1 and all answers will be added up to make total score. (The wording of the questionnaire items will be modified so that junior high school students can read and understand the questions.) (2) After reading 3 vignettes which describe 3 teenage students with depression, schizophrenia or panic disorder, the following items will be assessed, (a) "Recognition of the necessity to seek help" (b) "Intention to seek help" and (c) "Intention to help peers with the illnesses" using a self-reported questionnaire (Yamaguchi et al.,2020). Scoring methods by Yamaguchi et al., (2020) will be applied to (a)-(c). In addition to the items above, (d) stigmatizing attitudes towards each mental illness will be assessed using social distance scale (Yap et al., 2014). Also, (e) respondents will be asked to answer "What illness does each student in the vignettes suffer from?". Response options will be as follows: no illness: depression: schizophrenia: eating disorder: panic disorder: social anxiety disorder (social phobia): I don't know. Additionally, (f) respondents will be asked to answer the following: Imagine that you are having the same condition as each student in the vignettes. Would you talk to someone if you were given advice that "you had better talk to someone" from people around you? Response options will be as follows: I would: I probably would: I probably would not: I would not. ((f) was added 2022/07/30) Each outcome will be assessed at immediately before, immediately after and 3 months after the intervention. Yamaguchi et al., J Adolesc, 82:58-66, 2020. Yap et al., Int J Methods Psychiatr Res, 23:49-61, 2014. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| (1) Mental health (well-being) will be assessed using the Japanese version of the WHO-5 (Awata et al., 2007). (Total score for WHO-5 will be used.) The wording of the questionnaire items will be modified so that junior high school students can read and understand the questions. (2) Actual help-seeking behavior for respondents' own mental health problems will be examined using self-report items. (3) Questions about usual bedtimes and wake-up times (in the past 1-2 months) on school days and weekend days will be used to calculate Time-in-bed. The questions will be as follows: "What time (hour and minute) do you usually go to bed on school nights?" and "What time (hour and minute) do you usually wake up on school days?", and "What time (hour and minute) do you usually go to bed on weekend nights?" and "What time (hour and minute) do you usually wake up on weekends?", respectively. Each outcome will be assessed at immediately before and 3 months after the intervention. Awata et al., Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 61:112-9, 2007. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactTsukasa Sasaki
The University of Tokyo Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education
Outcome results
None listed