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NCT Number: NCT03215654

"EspaiJove.Net"- a School-based Intervention Program to Promote Mental Health in Adolescent Population

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of 3 sensitivity and mental health literacy programs for young students in the increase of mental health knowledge, to help seeking and reducing the stigma in order to prevent mental disorders and to reduce symptoms.

Design: Multicenter randomized clinical trial school-based during 12 months follow up. Setting: Educational centers of secondary education (E.S.O) (public or private) of Barcelona. Subjects: 408 students between 13 and 18 years old who attend 3rt ESO in 8 randomized schools of Barcelona.

Interventions: 3 intervention groups of ascending intensity: 1) Sensitivity Program Mental Health (SP)(1h); 2) Mental Health Literacy Program (MHLP) (6h); 3) MHLP more Stigma Reduction (ER) ( MHLP+RE)(7h).Control group: waiting List.

Measures of results:1) Mental Health Literacy; 2) Stigma associated with mental health; 3) Mental Symptoms and Positive Mental Health (SDQ); 4) Bullying and Ciberbullying; 5) Quality of life (E-5D); 6) Intent to change; 7) Help Seeking (AHSQ); 8) Use of Health Services and Treatment and 9) Satisfaction.

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Key information

Age range

13 year–18 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Centre Higiene Mental Les Corts, Barcelona, Spain

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Adolescents students who are currently attending the 3rd grade of E.S.O (corresponding to 9th grade in U.S.) in Barcelona, Spain;
  • Sign the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Attending any special education school;
  • Students with special educational needs who attend any school;
  • Not understanding Spanish and Catalan language.

Treatment and study plan

"EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program

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The "EspaiJove.net: a space for mental health" (EspaiJove.net) project is a MHL program which aims the promotion of mental health, the prevention of mental disorders, the facilitation of help-seeking behaviors and the eradication of stigma among secoundary students into the Spanish context.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in the Mental Health knowledge

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    This questionnaire is divided by two sections: (a) an identification list of mental disorders from a list of several diseases; (b) 20 questions with 4 possible answer choices which only one is correct.

  2. Change in the Scaling Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI).

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    Behaviour and Attitudes towards Mental health ( stigma)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in the Mental health symptoms and emotional well-being

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    The Strengths and Difficulties Scale (SDQ) will assess mental health symptoms and emotional well-being.

  2. Change in the Bullying and Cyberbullying questionnaire

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    We developed four yes/no questions to ask whether he/she has been a victim or perpetrator of a bullying and/or a cyberbullying experience.

  3. Change in the Quality of life

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    We will use a Spanish validated version of the EuroQol 5D-5L questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L)

  4. Change in the Intentions to Change

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    We will use the adapted Spanish version of the States of Change Scale (SCS). This is based on the Transtheoretical Change Model developed by J. Prochaska and C. DiClemente to assess the degree intention, disposition or attitude towards change.

  5. Change in the Help-seeking

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    We selected and adapted the first item from the Spanish version of the General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (GHSQ) for measuring help-seeking behaviour in adolescents.

  6. Change in the Use of Health Services and Treatment

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    We developed a 8- ítems questionnaire to evaluate the use of health services and treatment

  7. Health Benefits Questionnaire

    Time frame: Baseline

    We developed a 17-items questionnaire to evaluate family, academic and general health benefits.

  8. Acceptability and satisfaction of the intervention

    Time frame: 2 weeks after the intervention

    We developed a short questionnaire for assessing acceptability and satisfaction to measure the degree of receptivity of the people to the interventions proposed.

  9. Change in the Reported and Intended Behaviour Scale (RIBS)

    Time frame: Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

    Behaviour and Attitudes towards Mental health ( stigma)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Centre d'Higiene Mental Les Corts

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Registry information

Official study title

"EspaiJove.Net"- a School-based Intervention Program to Promote Mental Health and Eradicating Stigma in Adolescent Population: a Randomised Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jul 12, 2017
Registry last updated
Jul 25, 2019

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