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NCT Number: NCT02680899

Adolescent Mental Health InSciEd Out

The study herein seeks to determine whether students undergoing InSciEd Out curriculum in mental health and addiction (called My Mind, My Body) experience changes in their mental health-related knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behavioral intentions. The research group hypothesizes that students undergoing InSciEd Out mental health and addiction curriculum will exhibit pre-post increases in mental health literacy, decreases in mental health stigmatization, and increases in mental health help-seeking behavioral intentions.

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Key information

Conditions

Mental Disorders Behavior Chemically-Induced Disorders Mental Health Impairment Mental Health Wellness 1 Social Behavior Social Stigma Stereotyping Substance-Related Disorders

Age range

12 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States

About this study

Integrated Science Education Outreach (InSciEd Out) is one novel program that seeks to promote scientific and health literacy through fostering scientific inquiry. The guiding premise of InSciEd Out's health promotion arm is a concept called Prescription Education (PE), which uses science education as a direct and early intervention for disease behaviors. The underlying hypothesis of InSciEd Out PE is that a student who lives a scientific experience in his or her own voice (undergoes true inquiry-based science) will be empowered to elect healthier behaviors in any targeted health paradigm. PE's proposed mechanism of change is that inquiry-based science catalyzes transitions from knowledge to understanding to attitudes to intents to actual behavioral change.

InSciEd Out partnership with the the school in this study began in Spring of 2013 with a projected health promotion arm targeting mental health and addiction. The current iteration of the partnership commenced in Summer of 2014 under the annual InSciEd Out summer internship. This internship led to creation of grades 7 and 8 curriculum in mental health and addiction. Version 1 of this curriculum was piloted last year. A revised version of the curriculum will be implemented in Spring of 2016. Although there are education-specific metrics for assessment already built into program evaluation of InSciEd Out, there are currently no clinically relevant inventories in place to specifically probe efficacy of the lesson plans upon key mental health outcomes.

The study herein is the establishment of clinically relevant inventories around implemented InSciEd Out curriculum in mental health and addiction (called My Mind, My Body). These inventories are selected to measure student changes in their mental health-related knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behavioral intentions. The research group hypothesizes that students undergoing InSciEd Out mental health and addiction curriculum will exhibit pre-post increases in mental health literacy, decreases in mental health stigmatization, and increases in mental health help-seeking behavioral intentions.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Partner school students who do not opt out of and assent to the study

Exclusion criteria

Partner school students opting out of or not assenting to the study

Treatment and study plan

Curricular Intervention

Behavioral

The intervention is a novel grades 7 and 8 InSciEd Out curriculum in mental health and addiction called My Mind, My Body.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline Score on General Help-Seeking Questionnaire at 1 month

    Time frame: Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month

    The general help-seeking questionnaire: vignette version (GHSQ-V) will be used to assess help-seeking behavioral intentions.

  2. Change from Baseline Score on Westbrook Mental Health Knowledge Test at 1 month

    Time frame: Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month

    The Westbrook Knowledge Test assesses mental health knowledge.

  3. Change from Baseline Score on Adolescent Attribution Questionnaire at 1 month

    Time frame: Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month

    The adolescent attribution questionnaire (AQ-8-C) will be used to assess mental illness stigmatization.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Teacher Report of Student Outcomes

    Time frame: Conducted at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month

    Teacher quotes from semi-structured interviews concerning student outcomes in mental health knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors will be used to form a student narrative.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Adolescent Outcomes in Mental Health InSciEd Out

Important dates

Study start
2016
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Feb 12, 2016
Registry last updated
Nov 30, 2017

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