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A School-Based Intervention to Reduce Stigma & Promote Mental-Health Service Use

NCT03597048 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 751

Last updated 2018-07-24

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Summary

This is a school-based field experiment conducted in sixth grade classrooms to evaluate a multifaceted intervention designed to change attitudes and behaviors regarding mental illnesses. The research tests hypotheses as to whether alone or in combination interventions that are 1) a curriculum-based in-class presentations, 2) contact-based with a person who has experienced a mental illness, or 3) or based on educational materials distributed in classes improve knowledge/attitudes and encourage help seeking for mental health problems in a follow up study lasting two years.

Conditions

  • Stigma, Social
  • Mental Illness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Curriculum

The curriculum intervention is a three- module, three-hour curriculum delivered by teachers in sixth grade classrooms over a three- to six-day period. The curriculum is designed to increase knowledge and improve attitudes about mental illnesses so as to improve the school climate with respect to mental illness stigma and encourage help seeking for youth in need.

BEHAVIORAL

Contact

The contact intervention involves two college students-a 27-year-old male with a history of bipolar I disorder and a 24-year-old female with a history of bipolar II disorder-who each make a ten-minute in-class presentation (20 minutes total) describing onset and course of their symptoms, hospitalizations and treatments, their feelings about the illness, coping strategies, and impact of the illness on social relationships and functioning at school and work.

BEHAVIORAL

Materials

The materials intervention is implemented by teachers who prominently display posters in the classroom for two weeks and provide students with bookmarks. The materials focus on individuals' with mental illnesses emphasizing their personal traits and abilities as opposed to language that labels a person as "mentally ill."

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of California, Riverside

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-01
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

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