Mental Health, Mindfulness, Stress, Youth
Conditions
Keywords
School-based intervention, Population-based preventive strategy, Public health
Brief summary
Our primary aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher training programme to teach mindfulness as part of regular classroom teaching in the total population of students in Danish upper secondary schools and schools of health and social care, respectively, on students' self-reported mental health at six-month follow-up. Our secondary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher training programme to teach mindfulness in a vulnerable subgroup of students on their self-reported mental health at three and six months after baseline.
Detailed description
The study is designed as a pragmatic cluster randomised two-arm trial including 43 Danish schools (30 upper secondary schools and 13 schools of health and social care). The schools included a total of 76 school teachers for teacher training (44 teachers from upper secondary schools and 32 teachers from schools of health and social care). Each included teacher will be asked to recruit a class of students (15-30 students) to test the effectiveness of the modified MBSR programme (in total approx. 1.000 students).
Interventions
BEHAVIORALModified MBSR programme
1 hour group session once a week in 10 weeks
Sponsors
University of Aarhus
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
16 Years to 24 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* All students in the enrolled school classes
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) - The short version | Six months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) - The youth self-report version | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| Perseived Stress Scale | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) - The short form version | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) - The short version | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| Experiences Questionnaire (EQ) - Decentering subscale | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| EQ-5D | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire - Modified version | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
| Three-Item Loneliness Scale (T-ILS) | Three months after baseline | Change in the score among the total study population |
Countries
Denmark
Outcome results
None listed