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NCT Number: NCT03361475

SME(Sharing, Mind & Enjoyment) App for Adolescents

SME (Sharing, Mind, Enjoyment) App, A Pilot Project is part of the Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults, which aims at promoting sharing, mind and enjoyment and enhancing mental wellbeing. The Mental Wellness Project is financially supported by the Health Care and Promotion Fund from Food and Health Bureau and led by the School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong (HKU). This project primarily aims to promote the SME related behaviors of adolescents through the App. The evaluation will be conducted during the programme implementation stage. The effectiveness of the intervention, as well as the level of participation and ratings for the intervention, will be evaluated.

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Key information

Conditions

Mental Health Wellness 1

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

About this study

A cluster randomized controlled trial design was adopted. The major subjects of SME (Sharing, Mind, Enjoyment) App Pilot Project RCT Study are 300-500 middle school students. Two schools will be recruited and randomized to each group. Schools will either be assigned to app intervention group or waitlist control group. The students in the intervention group will use the App for one month. Daily and Weekly tasks related to SME will be assigned through the App, and information related to mental health will be provided. The waitlist control group will be able to use the App after we finish all the assessments.

There will then be 4 assessments (pre-intervention, immediate post-intervention, one month and three months after) to evaluate the effects of the intervention programme. In the assessments, students will be asked to complete a questionnaire to measure the changes in SME (sharing, mind and enjoyment) related behaviors, changes of knowledge and attitude towards the anxiety disorder, changes of happiness and well-being.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Students (major subjects) (intervention group and control group):
  • Chinese speaking
  • Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
  • Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
  • Can use the smartphone
  • Form 1 to 4 students
  • Parents (intervention group):
  • Chinese speaking
  • Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
  • Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
  • Can use the smartphone
  • With at least one child between form 1 to 4
  • School principals/teachers/community partners (intervention group):
  • Principals/teachers of intervention school or staffs of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals in partnership with HKU research team, who organize plan or implement the project
  • Adults aged 18 or above
  • Chinese speaking
  • Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
  • Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire/individual in-depth interviews completion

Exclusion criteria

  • Students who cannot read Chinese

Treatment and study plan

SME App

Behavioral

The features in the App could be used in the future by linking with some platforms / existing services so that more SME messages can be sent to the students for sharing. One school workshop will be held to promote SME and introduce the function of SME App for students to download and use immediately to connect family members.

SME App promotes SME via:

  • Express gratitude to family members (sharing)
  • Deliver positive messages regularly (mind)
  • Record physical and other joyful activities (enjoyment)
  • Increase knowledge and understanding of adolescent mental health problem (in particular the anxiety disorders)

Primary outcomes

  1. Changes in the concept of Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) for adolescents and their family members.

    Time frame: T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline

    The outcome-based questionnaire will be used to evaluate participants' frequency of performing the suggested Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) related behaviours from baseline to three-month after baseline.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Changes in the knowledge and understanding about mental health for adolescents and their family members.

    Time frame: T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T2: immediately after the SME App workshop ( post intervention ); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline

    The outcome-based questionnaire will be used to evaluate participants' knowledge and understanding about anxiety disorder from baseline to three-month after baseline.

  2. Changes in personal happiness from baseline to three-month after baseline

    Time frame: T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline

    Personal happiness will be assessed by Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS). SHS was rated on 7-point scale with 1 indicating not happiness at all and 7 indicating extreme happiness. To score the scale, the 4th item will be coded reversely and mean of the 4 items will be computed.

  3. Changes in mental well-being from baseline to three-month after baseline

    Time frame: T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline

    Mental well-being will be assessed by validated Chinese version of 7-item Warwick Edinburgh Well-being Scale. Each item ranges from 1 to 5 and the scale will be scored by first summing the score for each of the 7 items and then transforming the total score for each person according to a conversion table.

  4. Changes in individual and family health from baseline to three-month after baseline

    Time frame: T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline

    Self-perceived health, happiness and harmony at the individual and family level will be assessed by a 0-10 score at 3 time points

  5. Satisfaction toward SME App Project

    Time frame: T2: immediately after the SME App workshop ( post intervention ); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline

    Satisfaction towards the workshop, short interactive talk on SME and SME app will be assessed by programme evaluation measure

  6. The social impact of the community-based engagement project

    Time frame: T4: 3-month after baseline

    The social impact of the community-based engagement project will be The satisfaction, ratings and opinions on SME App programme of school principal/teacher/community partner in the intervention group will be assessed qualitatively (individual in-depth interviews)

  7. The process of community based intervention programme

    Time frame: up to 3 months

    The process evaluation on-site observation questionnaire will be used to assess the process of the community-based intervention programs.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

The University of Hong Kong

Other

Collaborators

  • Tung Wah Group of Hospitals

Registry information

Official study title

Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults SME (Sharing, Mind & Enjoyment) App - A Pilot Project

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2019
First posted
Dec 4, 2017
Registry last updated
Mar 29, 2019

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