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- Klinisk forsøg NCT07627451
CONSCIOUS: A Pilot Trial of a Media Orientation Intervention to Encourage Men's Help Seeking for Mental Health Difficulties (CONSCIOUS)
30. maj 2026 opdateret af: Tarela Ike, Teesside University
Media Orientation to Prevent Suicidal Ideation and Self Harm and Improve Help Seeking Behaviour: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial
Mental health difficulties among males are an issue of public health concern.
Men are also at higher risk of suicidal ideation and self-harm and are poor at help-seeking due to factors including stigma, cultural norms and gendered expectations of masculinity.
Yet, in Nigeria, a significant gap remains in media orientation intervention to create awareness on symptoms of mental health difficulties and support channels to encourage help-seeking.
In essence, the current study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of a novel intervention titled, psyChosOcial media awareNesS for SuiCIde symptoms, including other mental health PrOblems and help seeking mediUmS (CONSCIOUS) for addressing awareness of mental health difficulties in comparison to the waitlist control group for the purposes of improving men's help seeking, social support and reducing anxiety in Nigeria.
Studieoversigt
Status
Ikke rekrutterer endnu
Intervention / Behandling
Undersøgelsestype
Interventionel
Tilmelding (Anslået)
74
Fase
- Ikke anvendelig
Kontakter og lokationer
Dette afsnit indeholder kontaktoplysninger for dem, der udfører undersøgelsen, og oplysninger om, hvor denne undersøgelse udføres.
Studiekontakt
- Navn: Tarela J Ike, PhD
- Telefonnummer: 0164234231
- E-mail: T.ike@tees.ac.uk
Undersøgelse Kontakt Backup
- Navn: Dung E Jidong, PhD
- E-mail: Dung.jidong@manchester.ac.uk
Deltagelseskriterier
Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
- Voksen
- Ældre voksen
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Ja
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- male, aged 18 years or above, able to provide full informed consent to aid their participation, able to speak the English language which is Nigeria language. able to take part in the intervention and are available for the intervention assessment at baseline and end of intervention.
Exclusion Criteria:
- less than 18 years old, unable to provide informed consent, undergoing severe mental health treatment and unable to speak the English language. Participants were also excluded if they are high risk social ideation or self-harm patients.
Studieplan
Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
- Primært formål: Behandling
- Tildeling: Randomiseret
- Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
- Maskning: Enkelt
Våben og indgreb
Deltagergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / Behandling |
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Eksperimentel: Experimental : psyChosOcial media awareNesS for SuiCIde symptoms and other mental health PrOblems
Low intensity media campaign intervention
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The CONSCIOUS is 3 minutes recorded media message.
The intervention is designed to promote awareness on how to prevent suicidal ideation and self-harm, stigma reduction and avenues or mediums for help-seeking.
The core message is composed of three key ambits: 1) emphasizing what is meant by suicidal ideation and self-harm (ii) the need to seek help and stop societal stigmatising behaviour (iii) Avenues for help seeking and improved mental health and wellbeing.
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Andet: Control - Intervention as Usual/Waitlist
Intervention as Usual / Waitlist to be administered the CONSCIOUS intervention after assessment at baseline (day 1) and end of intervention (day 2).
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Current available interventions to foster help seeking including leaflets, community health centre provision of information etc.
This group will be later offered the CONSCIOUS intervention after completion of baseline and end of intervention assessment.
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Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Service Satisfaction Scale
Tidsramme: Immediately after the end of the intervention
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A five item scale that can be used to assess and measure satisfaction, acceptability and quality of the intervention.
Higher score denote positive outcomes and acceptability.
Lower score denotes poor satisfaction and acceptability.
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Immediately after the end of the intervention
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Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Generaliseret Angstlidelse (GAD-7)
Tidsramme: Baseline (dag 1) og ved afslutningen af interventionen (dag 2)
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GAD-7 er en syv-punkts skala til screening, måling og vurdering af sværhedsgraden af generaliseret angstlidelse.
Scores på 5, 10 og 15 betragtes som afskæringspunkterne for henholdsvis mild, moderat og svær angst. |
Baseline (dag 1) og ved afslutningen af interventionen (dag 2)
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Oslo Sociale Støttes Skala (OSSS-3)
Tidsramme: Baseline (dag 1) og ved afslutningen af interventionen (dag 2)
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Skaalaen er et 3-punkts selvrapporteret mål designet til at vurdere og måle niveauet af social støtte. Sumscoreområdet er fra 3 til 14, hvor høje værdier repræsenterer stærke niveauer og lave værdier repræsenterer dårlige niveauer af social støtte som angivet som følger: a) 3-8 dårlig social støtte, b) 9-11 moderat social støtte, c) 12-14 stærk social støtte.
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Baseline (dag 1) og ved afslutningen af interventionen (dag 2)
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Europæisk Livskvalitetsskala EQ-5D-5L
Tidsramme: Baseline (dag 1) og ved afslutningen af interventionen (dag 2)
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EQ-5D-5L er en 5-punkts skala designet til at hjælpe med vurderingen af den generelle livskvalitet.
I EQ-5D-5L har hver dimension fem svarniveauer: ingen problemer (Niveau 1); let (Niveau 2); moderat (Niveau 3); alvorlig (Niveau 4); og ekstreme problemer (Niveau 5).
Der er 3.125 mulige helbredstilstande defineret ved at kombinere et niveau fra hver dimension, der spænder fra 11111 (fuldt helbred) til 55555 (værst tænkelige helbred).
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Baseline (dag 1) og ved afslutningen af interventionen (dag 2)
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Attitude Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale
Tidsramme: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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The ATSPPH is a 10-item scale that measures attitude towards seeking professional psychological help.
Higher scores reflect increased positive attitude towards seeking professional psychological help while lower score reflects reduced attitude towards seeking help.
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Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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General Help Seeking Questionnaire (GHSQ)
Tidsramme: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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The GHSQ is a 20-item scale measuring the likelihood of seeking help from a range of sources.
The scale adopts a Likert style rating as follows: Extremely unlikely(1), Somewhat unlikely (2), Unlikely (3), Not sure (4), Likely =5, Somewhat likely = 6, Extremely likely =7.
The scores are summed across all help-seeking items.
For a standard 9-item list, total scores range from 9 to 63 points.
Higher total scores indicate a greater overall intention to seek help from someone.
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Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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Self Stigma and Help Seeking (SSHS) Scale
Tidsramme: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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The self-stigma and help seeking scale is a 10-item scale that measures stigma of seeking help.
The scale features 10 items, each rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly.
Items 2, 4, 5, 7, and 9 are reverse-scored.
The possible total score ranges from 10 to 50.
Higher total scores indicate higher levels of internalised self-stigma associated with seeking professional psychological help.
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Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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Stigma of Suicide Scale (SOSS)
Tidsramme: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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The Stigma of Suicide Scale (SOSS) measures public attitudes and stigma toward suicide, aiding research on societal perceptions and informing anti-stigma interventions to improve mental health outcomes.
The long form consists of 58 items and the short form consists of 16 items.
Each item consists of a one-word descriptor of a person who dies by suicide.
A person completes the scale by rating how much they agree with each item being a descriptor of someone who takes their own life.
Each item is to be rated on a 5-point Likert scale from (1) strongly disagree to (5) strongly agree.
Higher scores indicate higher levels of stigma towards people who suicide.
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Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)
Tidsramme: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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The Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) is a 20-item, true/false self-report inventory designed to measure an individual's negative attitudes or pessimism about the future.
Lower score indicate none or minimal while higher score indicate severe.
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Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
Tidsramme: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a standard diagnostic tool used to screen for and measure the severity of depression.
Scores range from 0 to 27, calculated by assigning 0 to 3 points for each of the nine questions.
Scores ≤4 suggest minimal depression which may not require treatment.
Higher score suggest depression.
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Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)
Tidsramme: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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The PCL-5 is a 20-item self-report questionnaire used to assess PTSD symptoms based on DSM-5 criteria.
It evaluates symptoms over the past month on a 0 to 4 scale, yielding a total severity score from 0 to 80.
A score of 31-33 or higher is generally considered the clinical cutoff.
Scores in this range suggest a provisional PTSD diagnosis.
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Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)
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Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
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Publikationer og nyttige links
Den person, der er ansvarlig for at indtaste oplysninger om undersøgelsen, leverer frivilligt disse publikationer. Disse kan handle om alt relateret til undersøgelsen.
Generelle publikationer
- Pirkis J, Rossetto A, Nicholas A, Ftanou M, Robinson J, Reavley N. Suicide Prevention Media Campaigns: A Systematic Literature Review. Health Commun. 2019 Apr;34(4):402-414. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2017.1405484. Epub 2017 Nov 30.
- Ftanou M, Cox G, Nicholas A, Spittal MJ, Machlin A, Robinson J, Pirkis J. Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements (PSAs): Examples from Around the World. Health Commun. 2017 Apr;32(4):493-501. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1140269. Epub 2016 Jun 16.
Datoer for undersøgelser
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Studer store datoer
Studiestart (Anslået)
30. juni 2026
Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)
3. juni 2027
Studieafslutning (Anslået)
3. juni 2027
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
30. maj 2026
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
30. maj 2026
Først opslået (Faktiske)
4. juni 2026
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)
4. juni 2026
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
30. maj 2026
Sidst verificeret
1. maj 2026
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Nøgleord
Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- 0000-0003-0516-0313h
- CONSCIOUS (Anden identifikator: Teesside University)
Plan for individuelle deltagerdata (IPD)
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Data supporting this study cannot be made available due to the sensitive nature and ethical reasons on confidentiality.
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