Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Templeton World Charity Foundation
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants must be aged between 12 and 21 Participants are high school students attending a high school in Kenya.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: There are no other exclusion criteria beyond the inclusion criteria listed above. Should more participants meet the inclusion criteria than is logistically feasible for the indicated group sizes and numbers of group leaders, participants (who have met the inclusion criteria) will be randomly selected to take part in the program. This is a universal intervention, so the youth do not need to meet a symptom threshold.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Changes in self-reported depression symptoms as measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire - 8;Changes in self-reported anxiety symptoms, measured by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener ;Changes in average academic grade from school-term before participation to school-term after participation, as measured by the average grade achieved by student across all enrolled students. As participants will be students from various classes and in various schools, student average grades will be rescaled, a mean of 60 and SD of 10 will be used in rescaling.;Changes in the mental well-being of participants measured by the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Changes in adolescent wellbeing, as measured by the EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-Being;Changes in self-reported Gratitude from baseline to 2-week follow-up, as measured by a 6-item version of the Gratitude Questionnaire.;Changes in perceived sense of purpose and meaning in life, as measured by the Purpose in Life Scale-12;Changes in self-reported implicit theories of personality about whether people’s attributes are fixed or are malleable, as measured by the 3-item Implicit Personality Theory Questionnaire;Changes in perceived social support, as measured by the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, 8 items;Self-reported opinions on the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention, as measured by the Acceptability of Intervention Measure. ;Self-reported opinions on whether the intervention is appropriate, as measured by the Intervention Appropriateness Measure. ;The demographic questionnaire asks participants to report their basic demographic information, including their age, year in school, gender, family financial status, religion, county of origin, location of home (e.g., rural, urban), and the tribe they belong to.;A feedback scale will be used to assess participant's feedback about the program. The measure includes questions for participants about the interventions they participated in (e.g., which sessions they thought were most helpful). The measure also seeks other suggestions from participants about how the program can be improved for future implementation;The feedback questionnaire will be administered to ask for feedback from group leaders about the training they have received. There are two anonymous feedback questionnaires that group leaders will fill out; one will be distributed immediately post-training, and the other after the leaders have completed the program. Each questionnaire asks the group leaders to indicate their satisfaction with the training, on a scale of 1 (the training is terrible and makes them feel extremely unpre | — |
Countries
Kenya
Contacts
Public ContactTom Osborn
Shamiri Institute
Outcome results
None listed