Knowledge and understanding of mental health in parents

Mental health literacy for parents - Mental health literacy for parents

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000046719

Enrollment

1000

Registered

2022-01-25

Start date

2022-02-16

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Mental health literacy

Interventions

One 15-minute program regarding mental health literacy will be delivered. The program will be taught using slides with narration and an animated film. Main topics of the program will be as follows: (1

s mental health problems.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Parents of students in junior and senior high schools.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: None

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Mental health literacy will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire as follows. 1. General knowledge about mental health and illnesses such as lifetime-prevalence of mental illnesses, increase of mental illnesses in teens, and association between school life or sleep habits and mental health, will be assessed using items developed for this study by the authors. 2. After reading a vignette which describes a student with depression, and assuming that a child of respondents is in the same situation as the student in the vignette, (1) intention to deal with their child, (2) what they feel when their child is diagnosed to have a mental illness, and (3) stigmatizing attitude towards the state of their child, will be assessed. For the assessment of (1) and (2), items developed for this study will be used. For (3), some question items will be adapted from the "weak-not-sick" subscale of the Depression Stigma Scale (Yap et al., 2014). Among this scale, the items and the answer choices that are appropriate to ask parents in Japan will be selected, and the wording of the items and the answer choices will be modified so that the wordings are more suitable for parents in Japan. Each outcome will be assessed at immediately before and after the intervention. Yap et al., International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.2014;23(1):49-61.	—

Measure

Time frame

Mental health literacy will be assessed using a self-reported questionnaire as follows. 1. General knowledge about mental health and illnesses such as lifetime-prevalence of mental illnesses, increase of mental illnesses in teens, and association between school life or sleep habits and mental health, will be assessed using items developed for this study by the authors. 2. After reading a vignette which describes a student with depression, and assuming that a child of respondents is in the same situation as the student in the vignette, (1) intention to deal with their child, (2) what they feel when their child is diagnosed to have a mental illness, and (3) stigmatizing attitude towards the state of their child, will be assessed. For the assessment of (1) and (2), items developed for this study will be used. For (3), some question items will be adapted from the "weak-not-sick" subscale of the Depression Stigma Scale (Yap et al., 2014). Among this scale, the items and the answer choices that are appropriate to ask parents in Japan will be selected, and the wording of the items and the answer choices will be modified so that the wordings are more suitable for parents in Japan. Each outcome will be assessed at immediately before and after the intervention. Yap et al., International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.2014;23(1):49-61.

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Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactTsukasa Sasaki

The University of Tokyo Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education

psytokyo@yahoo.co.jp03-5841-3985

Outcome results

None listed

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