NCT02937714

Effectiveness of School Based Intervention for Promoting Mental Health Literacy Among Teachers

Completed NA Last updated 26 March 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing School Mental Health training in School Mental Health Training of Teachers in 231 participants. Completed in 30 November 2018.

Timeline

10 September 2017

Primary endpoint
30 November 2018

30 November 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	King Edward Medical University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	231
Start date	10 September 2017
Primary completion	30 November 2018
Estimated completion	30 November 2018
Sites	1 location across Pakistan

Drugs / interventions tested

• School Mental Health training

Conditions studied

• School Mental Health Training of Teachers — all drugs for School Mental Health Training of Teachers →

Sponsor

King Edward Medical University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with School Mental Health Training of Teachers. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Significantly higher prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems have been reported from Pakistan.This higher prevalence along with stigma of psychiatric problems and limited child \& adolescent mental health services in Pakistan means that it is important to consider alternate methods for promoting psychological and emotional well-being of our youth. Schools can thus act as a natural platform for mental health promotion as schools context has almost as much impact on students' emotional health as the family context.

Teachers' role in the school mental health initiatives cannot be overemphasized. Teachers own knowledge and beliefs regarding mental health influence the way they respond to students mental health crisis. Recognizing the need for wider implementation of evidence based school mental health interventions in the region and to help in addressing the mental health literacy of educators in resource constrained settings, World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO-EMRO) has developed a concise and practical manual of school mental health in December 2014. In the absence of any "whole school approach" study from Pakistan focusing on teachers training and addressing all the various evidence based components of promotion of positive mental health, Investigators aim to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial to assess effectiveness of training based on WHO-EMRO manual, in addition to its feasibility \& acceptability in improving teachers' mental health literacy and self-efficacy in dealing with students mental health issues.

HYPOTHESIS:

For teachers:

* School mental health training intervention will significantly improve teacher's mental health literacy \& self-efficacy compared to wait list control group.
* At 3 months follow-up, control group teachers' mental health literacy will also improve compared to baseline due to contamination of information provided, across groups within the same school.

All hypothesis pertains to individual level.

For students:

Mental health training of teachers would lead to an overall improvement in student's outcome measure (student's emotional and behavioural difficulties) at 3 months follow-up.

Publications & conference data

3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries.
   Purgato M, Prina E, Ceccarelli C, Cadorin C, et al · · 2023 · cited 17× · PMID 37873968 · DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd014722.pub2
2. World Health Organization "School Mental Health Manual"-based training for school teachers in Urban Lahore, Pakistan: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
   Imran N, Rahman A, Chaudhry N, Asif A. · · 2018 · cited 17× · PMID 29793553 · DOI 10.1186/s13063-018-2679-3
3. Effectiveness of a school-based mental health intervention for school teachers in urban Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial.
   Imran N, Rahman A, Chaudhry N, Asif A. · · 2022 · cited 4× · PMID 35505362 · DOI 10.1186/s13034-022-00470-1