The effectiveness of the online peer gatekeeper training program for the student on suicide prevention

The effectiveness of the online peer gatekeeper training program for the student on suicide prevention: a randomized controlled trial - The effectiveness of the online peer gatekeeper training program for the student on suicide prevention: a randomized controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000045325

Enrollment

128

Registered

2021-08-31

Start date

2021-08-30

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Youth

Interventions

Participants assigned to the intervention group will take an online student peer gatekeeper training program within 10 days. Participants who were assigned to the waitlist control group will spend usu

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1.18~29 years old 2.Students belonging to graduate school, university, junior college, vocational school, college of technology 3.Those who can access the Internet via their own PC, smartphone, or tablet PC and communicate by e-mail. 4.Those who acknowledge that the program offered is a suicide prevention program.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1.Not read and write Japanese 2.Not full-time employees

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Gatekeeper self-efficacy scale(GKSES) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
-Japanese version of the short forms of Literacy of Suicide Scale (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Japanese version of the mental Illness and Disorder Understanding Scale (MIDUS) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Scale for Measuring Help-Seeking Styles (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Psychological distress (K6) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -A Japanese version of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Tachikawa Resilience Scale(TRS) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -University of Tokyo Health Sociology version of the SOC3 scale(SOC3-UTHS) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Action as gatekeeper (Original) (2-months follow-up) -Implementation Outcome Scales for Digital Mental Health (iOSDMH) for USERs(Consumers) (post) -Japanese version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (pre) -the Japanese version of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) (pre)	—

Measure

Time frame

-Japanese version of the short forms of Literacy of Suicide Scale (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Japanese version of the mental Illness and Disorder Understanding Scale (MIDUS) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Scale for Measuring Help-Seeking Styles (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Psychological distress (K6) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -A Japanese version of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Tachikawa Resilience Scale(TRS) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -University of Tokyo Health Sociology version of the SOC3 scale(SOC3-UTHS) (pre, post, 2-months follow-up) -Action as gatekeeper (Original) (2-months follow-up) -Implementation Outcome Scales for Digital Mental Health (iOSDMH) for USERs(Consumers) (post) -Japanese version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (pre) -the Japanese version of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) (pre)

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Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactKyosuke Nozawa

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Department of Psychiatric Nursing

gatekeeper.program@gmail.com03-5841-3364

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026