Adolescent Mental Health InSciEd Out

November 28, 2017 updated by: Christopher Pierret, Mayo Clinic

Adolescent Outcomes in 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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

17

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Minnesota
      • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
        • Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

12 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Other
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Curricular Intervention
The intervention is a novel science education curriculum in mental health and addiction called My Mind, My Body.
Behavioral: Curricular Intervention
The intervention is a novel grades 7 and 8 InSciEd Out curriculum in mental health and addiction called My Mind, My Body.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
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.
Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month
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.
Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month
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.
Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
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.
Conducted at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Christopher Pierret, PhD, Mayo Clinic
  • Principal Investigator: Stephen C Ekker, PhD, Mayo Clinic
  • Study Director: Joanna Yang, BS, Mayo Clinic

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

February 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

May 1, 2016

Study Completion (Actual)

May 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 2, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 9, 2016

First Posted (Estimate)

February 12, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 30, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 28, 2017

Last Verified

November 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 15-009107

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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