SME(Sharing, Mind & Enjoyment) App for Adolescents

March 27, 2019 updated by: Dr Sun Yuying, The University of Hong Kong

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

408

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

  • Hong Kong
      • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
        • School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong

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

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Students (major subjects) (intervention group and control group):

    1. Chinese speaking
    2. Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
    3. Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
    4. Can use the smartphone
    5. Form 1 to 4 students

  • Parents (intervention group):

    1. Chinese speaking
    2. Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
    3. Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire completion
    4. Can use the smartphone
    5. With at least one child between form 1 to 4

  • School principals/teachers/community partners (intervention group):

    1. 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
    2. Adults aged 18 or above
    3. Chinese speaking
    4. Intact verbal and hearing abilities for interpersonal communication
    5. Reading and writing abilities for questionnaire/individual in-depth interviews completion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Students who cannot read Chinese

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: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention school
One school workshop and a small talk were conducted first at the beginning of the programme, which was to promote SME and introduce the function of SME App for students, followed by downloading and using immediately to connect family members, then let them continue to use for one month with system reminder.
Behavioral: SME App

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)
No Intervention: Waitlist control schools
The intervention won't be provided during evaluation period and will be provided after the evaluation period

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
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.
T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
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.
up to 3 months
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.
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
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.
T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline
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.
T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline
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
T1: before the SME App workshop (baseline); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline
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
T2: immediately after the SME App workshop ( post intervention ); T3: 1-month after baseline; T4: 3-month after baseline
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)
T4: 3-month after baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

The University of Hong Kong

Collaborators

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Yuying Sun, Dr., Post-doctoral Fellow

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 11, 2018

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 30, 2018

Study Completion (Actual)

February 28, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 28, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 1, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

December 4, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 29, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 27, 2019

Last Verified

March 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • SPH-MHP-TWGH01

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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