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

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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Mental Health; Stigma, Social
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 432
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Barcelona, Spain, 08029
    • Centre Higiene Mental Les Corts
  • Barcelona, Spain, 08029
    • Rocio Casañas

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 13 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Sensitization Program (SP); Include the concepts of mental health and mental disorder, healthy and risky behaviors of mental health, and use of health services. Duration 1 hour.	Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program; 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.
Experimental: Mental Health Literacy Program (MHL); MHL module contents are: 1) Our emotions. Definitions of mental health and mental disorders. Mental health multidisciplinary team network; 2) Healthy and risky behaviors of mental health; 3) Social skills and antisocial behavior, bullying and cyberbullying; 4) Anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal behaviors; 5) Eating and behavioral disorders; 6) Substance abuse (alcohol and cannabis), an psychotic disorder. Duration 6 hours.	Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program; 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.
Experimental: MHL more Stigma Reduction (ER); Includes the six teaching units of MHL and a first contact presentation with lived experience of any mental disorder, who will be delivered by a voluntary member of Activament Catalunya Associació (http://www.activament.org/es), a non-profit group specialized in reducing stigma. Duration 7 hours.	Other: "EspaiJove.net" mental health literacy program; 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.
No Intervention: Control group; Control group will be a waiting list condition and they will receive the full program of 7h at the next year of academic course

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in the Mental Health knowledge	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.	Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.
Change in the Scaling Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI).	Behaviour and Attitudes towards Mental health ( stigma)	Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in the Mental health symptoms and emotional well-being	The Strengths and Difficulties Scale (SDQ) will assess mental health symptoms and emotional well-being.	Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.
Change in the Bullying and Cyberbullying questionnaire	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.	Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.
Change in the Quality of life	We will use a Spanish validated version of the EuroQol 5D-5L questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L)	Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.
Change in the Intentions to Change	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.	Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.
Change in the Help-seeking	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.	Change from Baseline to 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.
Change in the Use of Health Services and Treatment	We developed a 8- ítems questionnaire to evaluate the use of health services and treatment	Change from Baseline to 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.
Health Benefits Questionnaire	We developed a 17-items questionnaire to evaluate family, academic and general health benefits.	Baseline
Acceptability and satisfaction of 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.	2 weeks after the intervention
Change in the Reported and Intended Behaviour Scale (RIBS)	Behaviour and Attitudes towards Mental health ( stigma)	Change from Baseline to 2 weeks after the intervention, 6 months and 12 months after the intervention.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre d'Higiene Mental Les Corts
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Lluis Lalucat, Centre Higiene Mental Les Corts

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Casanas R, Arfuch VM, Castellvi P, Gil JJ, Torres M, Pujol A, Castells G, Teixido M, San-Emeterio MT, Sampietro HM, Caussa A, Alonso J, Lalucat-Jo L. "EspaiJove.net"- a school-based intervention programme to promote mental health and eradicate stigma in the adolescent population: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2018 Jul 31;18(1):939. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5855-1.

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Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 2, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 15, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): March 22, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 4, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): July 12, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 25, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 24, 2019
• Last Verified: July 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: mental health; prevention; intervention; adolescence; promotion; school programs
• Other Study ID Numbers: PI15/01613

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No