Youth Promotion of Resilience Involving Mental E-health

NCT06753344 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: H24-01700
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,800
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

There is a critical gap in access to mental health promotion, prevention and support among youth worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries like Vietnam. The Y-PRIME Study aims to respond to this gap by co-designing with Vietnamese youth a mobile app that delivers life skills and self-management skills intervention to promote mental well-being in grade 10 Vietnamese students. Working with the Vietnam Youth Advisory Council (V-YAC) to adapt and co-design the intervention and app ensure that the intervention will be culturally appropriate and relevant to Vietnamese youth. The goal of the current phase is to test this intervention with grade 10 students across three provinces (Hanoi, Thai Binh, and Hung Yen) to assess:

1. 1.Whether the app helps to improve mental well-being and resilience among youth in Vietnam and helps to reduce factors that might increase the risk of poor mental well-being, like stress related to school and other pressures
2. 2.Whether the app can be delivered in Vietnamese schools
3. 3.Whether Vietnamese youth and school staff think the app is appropriate and appealing for youth in order to scale-up the model across the country

Conditions

Mental Well-being; Resilience; Population Study

Keywords

digital mental health; youth; LMIC; well-being; resilience; life skills education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Warwick Edinburg Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS)

  The Warwick Edinburg Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS), a 14-item scale that uses positively worded statements to assess feeling and functioning aspects of mental well-being in the general population. Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = none of the time and 5 = all of the time). Higher sum scores indicate higher positive mental wellbeing.

  baseline, 6 months, 12 months

Secondary Outcomes (9)

• Positive Childhood Experience (PCE)

  baseline, 6 months, 12 months

• Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale - Youth version (DASS -Y)

  baseline, 6 months, 12 months

• Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT)

  baseline, 6 months, 12 months

• Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale - VN

  baseline, 6 months, 12 months

• Internet Addiction Test - Short version (S-IAT)

  baseline, 6 months, 12 months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention Group

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental arm will use our app-based intervention \[name TBD\] at their own pace for 1 year. The app will introduce and teach six life and self-management skills to promote general mental well-being and resilience among Vietnamese youth. During the year, they will complete the outcome survey at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months marks. App data will be collected.

Behavioral: Intervention app

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

The no intervention arm will complete the outcome survey at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. After 12 months, they will gain access to the intervention app (at the same time as the experimental group) but no app data will be collected.

Interventions

Intervention app BEHAVIORAL

The app-based intervention, co-designed with the V-YAC, aims to introduce life skills and self-management skills to promote general mental well-being and resilience among Vietnamese youth. With this app, youth users will have a fun and safe space to learn and practice six life skills areas (Problem-solving, Social Media and Well-being, Communication and Interpersonal Skills, Realistic Thinking, Coping with Emotions and Stress, and Goal Setting). Lessons (in the form of short texts) and activities (ex. multiple choice activities, blank worksheets, reflection questions) were adapted from evidence-based interventions developed in other contexts to be culturally appropriate to the Vietnamese youth context. Youth users are free to explore the app at their own pace. Gamification features will also allow youth users to collect points in the app for completing each lesson, activity, or challenge.

Intervention Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 16 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Enrolled in grade 10 of participating secondary schools
• Have access to a smartphone
• Provided informed assent to participate
• Parent of participant provided informed consent for their child to participate

You may not qualify if:

• Not in grade 10
• Not enrolled in participating secondary schools
• Not have access to a smartphone
• Not provided assent
• Parent did not provide consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of British Columbia: lead
• St. Francis Xavier University: collaborator
• Institute of Population, Health and Development, Vietnam: collaborator
• Simon Fraser University: collaborator
• University of Melbourne: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Institute of Population, Health, and Development, Vietnam

Hanoi, 117222, Vietnam

RECRUITING

Related Publications (1)

• Murphy JK, Nguyen VC, Linh DT, Xie H, Tran TH, Barbic SP, Chau LW, Samji H, Minas H, Nguyen MV, Obrzut A, O'Neil J, Michalak EE, Lam RW. Promoting mental well-being among secondary school students in Vietnam using the Y-MIND app: A protocol for a hybrid type 2, sequence pre-post, quasi-experimental study. PLoS One. 2025 Oct 7;20(10):e0332875. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0332875. eCollection 2025.

  PMID: 41056276 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Psychological Well-Being

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Personal Satisfaction; Behavior

Study Officials

• Raymond Lam, MD

  University of British Columbia

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Jill Murphy, PhD

  St. Francis Xavier University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Nguyen Vu, MD

  Institute of Population Health and Development

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Jill Murphy, PhD

CONTACT

902-867-5407; jkmurphy@stfx.ca

Rosie Tran

CONTACT

604-822-7804; rosie.tran@ubc.ca

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 17, 2024
• First Posted: December 31, 2024
• Study Start: January 10, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 31, 2028
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 31, 2028
• Last Updated: March 25, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

VN (1)