Sanctuary Youth Series Randomized Control Trial

November 14, 2024 updated by: Kate Williams, Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries

The Youth Series Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries Randomized Control Trial

Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries designed an eight-week program for youth ages 11-15 that uses games, short films, discussion questions, and exercises to engage with mental health and faith topics. The intervention package includes a facilitation guide and a guide for parents and caregivers. The program is intended to be conducted by an experienced facilitator, although there is no specific training provided for facilitators outside of the facilitation guide. The facilitator would lead groups of 11-15 year olds by leading games, showing the films, and facilitating discussion. The series is freely available on Sanctuary's website; individuals can access the material by creating an account, logging in, and downloading the course content. This RCT is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Youth Series course on improving youth's mental health literacy, knowledge, and attitudes towards help-seeking.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Churches will be recruited to the study based on social media sites and through Sanctuary's newsletter distribution lists. Churches who agree to participate in the study will be randomized to one of two groups, the Pilot Group that receives the 8-week series, and the Comparison Group, that does not receive the series. Both groups will be asked to complete a baseline survey and then a follow-up (end line) survey 8-weeks later. The results will be scored and compared between the two groups.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

2000

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 Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

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

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Youth between the ages of 11-18 attending a youth group that has been recruited to the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Youth outside of the age range that are not attending a youth group recruited 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: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Pilot Group
This group will receive an 8 week course on mental health knowledge. The series has been designed as an eight-week program for youth ages 11-15 that uses games, short films, discussion questions, and exercises to engage with mental health and faith topics.
Other: Mental Health Youth Series
The Mental Health Youth Series is an eight-week program for youth ages 11-15 that uses games, short films, discussion questions, and exercises to engage with mental health and faith topics. The intervention package includes a facilitation guide and a guide for parents and caregivers. The program is intended to be conducted by an experienced facilitator, although there is no specific training provided for facilitators outside of the facilitation guide.
No Intervention: Comparison Group
This group will not receive any mental health information, but will continue using their normal youth group material as planned. They will participate in the baseline and end line surveys.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Mental Health Knowledge
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Participants will answer mental health knowledge scores, either correct or incorrect.
8 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries

Collaborators

Excellence in Giving Insights

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Kate Williams, Masters, Excellence in Giving Insights
  • Study Director: Ashley Williams, Masters, Excellence in Giving Insights
  • Study Chair: Lincoln Lau, PhD, University of Toronto

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 (Estimated)

November 18, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

May 31, 2025

Study Completion (Estimated)

May 31, 2025

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 14, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 14, 2024

First Posted (Estimated)

November 18, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimated)

November 18, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 14, 2024

Last Verified

November 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Pending (Clinical Research Information Service)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

We do not plan to publish this data in the International Committee of Medical Journal (ICMJ)

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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