Mind Power - A CBT Based Program for Adolescents

NCT03647826 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2510
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,673
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to strengthen school achievement and positive mental health, and to prevent and reduce school dropout and mental distress among high school students. The researchers will scale up techniques that have already been proven highly effective in preventing common mental disorders (depression, anxiety) in high risk groups (indicated and selective prevention). The researchers will disseminate these techniques to entire first year classes of high school students irrespective of risk factors (universal prevention). The study will report whether universal delivery in school of "Mind Power" - a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) based programme - will strengthen school grades, self-efficacy, self-esteem, self-regulation, mental perceptions and well-being, and prevent and reduce school dropout, and symptoms of anxiety and depression. In addition the researchers will analyse whether such universal delivery prevents more mental distress, and is more cost-effective than when it is delivered only to those at high risk for school failure, dropout, or mental distress.

Conditions

Mental Depression; Mental Stress; Mental Health Wellness 1

Keywords

youth mental health; mental health prevention; empowerment

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-Short form, 8 items)

  Standardized and validated questionnaire: symptoms of anxiety and depression

  2 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES, short form, 4 items)

  1 minute

• Lindsley self-regulation (13 items)

  2 minutes

• The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS, 14 items)

  2 minutes

• The Norwegian Version of the General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (short form, 5 items)

  1 minute

• Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale, 2nd Ed. Short Form (10 items)

  1 minute

Other Outcomes (2)

• Students feedback on the experience of attending Mind Power

  2 minutes

• The seven mental health rights

  4 minutes

Study Arms (2)

Mind Power Intervention Group 1

EXPERIMENTAL

Entire school classes will be randomly divided into two interventions (Mind Power Intervention Group 1 or Mind Power Intervention Group 2). The content in the two interventions are exactly the same, except the time when they are conducted. The first arm is the Mind Power Intervention Group 1. This intervention is the first and starts in September 2018 and last for 10 weeks.

Behavioral: Mind Power Intervention

Mind Power Intervention Group 2

EXPERIMENTAL

The second arm is the Mind Power Intervention Group 2. This arm starts the intervention in January 2019 (six months later than Group 1). Group 2 function as a Control Group. The Experiment containes arm 1 and arm 2; With an delayed intervention design.

Behavioral: Mind Power Intervention

Interventions

Mind Power Intervention BEHAVIORAL

The intervention has a total sample of 110 schoool classes, which are devided in two arms: Mind Power Intervention Group 1 or Mind Power Intervention Group 2

Mind Power Intervention Group 1; Mind Power Intervention Group 2

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• high Schools have implemented Mind Power in their ordinary scheduals. We include all the students in these school classes, all the classes that the school principals have desided can attend in the study. The Principals choose which classes that will attend in the study, due to the amount of teachers who are able to attend in the project, and due the fixed time scheduals in their ordinary school plan. Then we randomize which of these school classes that starts Mind Power first (Group 1) and which starts six months later (Group 2).

You may not qualify if:

• none

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health: lead

Study Sites (1)

Gry Anette Sælid

Oslo, 0403, Norway

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Saelid GA, Czajkowski NO, Aaro LE, Andersen JR, Idsoe T, Helleseter MD, Holte A. Effects of a school-based intervention on levels of anxiety and depression: a cluster-randomized controlled trial of the MindPower program in ten high schools in Norway. BMC Psychol. 2022 Jan 24;10(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s40359-022-00721-y.

  PMID: 35074007 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Depression; Stress, Psychological; Empowerment

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Social Behavior

Study Officials

• Gry A Sælid, phd

  Norwegian Institute of Public Health

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Mind Power Intervention Group 1 starts in the beginning of the school semester, and Mind Power Intervention Group 2 functions as a Control Group until it starts six months after Group 1.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 17, 2018
• First Posted: August 27, 2018
• Study Start: September 1, 2018
• Primary Completion: November 26, 2019
• Study Completion: November 26, 2019
• Last Updated: March 23, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-03

Locations

NO (1)