NCT03382080: COMPLETE

A School-based Intervention Project to Increase Completion of Upper Secondary School in Norway

Completed NA Last updated 25 March 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Dream School Program in Drop Out in 3,500 participants. Completed in 12 February 2020.

Timeline

1 February 2016

Primary endpoint
31 October 2019

12 February 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Bergen
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	3,500
Start date	1 February 2016
Primary completion	31 October 2019
Estimated completion	12 February 2020

Drugs / interventions tested

• Dream School Program
• Mental Health Support Team

Conditions studied

• Drop Out — all drugs for Drop Out →
• Absence — all drugs for Absence →
• Academic Achievement/Average Grade — all drugs for Academic Achievement/Average Grade →
• Mental Health — all drugs for Mental Health →

Sponsor

University of Bergen

Who can join

15 and older, any sex, with Drop Out or Absence. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Drop out from upper secondary school represents a risk for the future health and wellbeing of young people. Strengthening of psychosocial aspects of the learning environment may be an effective strategy to promote completion of upper secondary school. The COMPLETE study is a school based cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating two school-based interventions, namely the Dream School Program (DSP) and the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) among 1st grade upper secondary school students in four counties in Norway. The interventions aim to improve psychosocial learning environments and subsequently school achievements and decrease drop-out and absence.

Specifically, the COMPLETE study will

1. Evaluate whether the DSP alone

1. increases completion
2. increases presence
3. improves school achievements
4. improves mental health and wellbeing
2. Evaluate whether the DSP and the MHST combined

1. increase completion
2. increase presence
3. improve school achievements
4. improve mental health and wellbeing

The COMPLETE study will also evaluate the effect of the DSP and MHST combined and the DSP alone against secondary outcomes of school satisfaction and loneliness.
3. Evaluate through a process evaluation whether the interventions were implemented in line with guidelines for each of the interventions, and whether the degree of program fidelity has influenced the effect of the interventions on the primary and secondary outcomes.

Publications & conference data

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

1. COMPLETE - a school-based intervention project to increase completion of upper secondary school in Norway: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.
   Larsen T, Urke HB, Holsen I, Anvik CH, et al · · 2018 · cited 10× · PMID 29523124 · DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5241-z
2. Preventing Loneliness and Reducing Dropout: Results from the COMPLETE Intervention Study in Upper Secondary Schools in Norway.
   Urke HB, Larsen TB, Kristensen SME. · · 2023 · PMID 37444146 · DOI 10.3390/ijerph20136299