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School-Based Mental Health Effectiveness Study

NCT04383327 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2444

Last updated 2025-08-08

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Summary

This study involves efforts to advance the science of prevention in early childhood mental health in low-resource communities. Investigators will assess the effectiveness, practical implementation strategies, and underlying mechanisms of the evidence-based intervention, ParentCorps-Professional Development, in urban and rural Uganda. Two implementation approaches, with and without the teacher stress management package, T-Wellness, will be compared for efficacy.

Conditions

  • Child Development

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ParentCorps-Professional Development (PD)

Multi-component school-based intervention that promotes early childhood mental health and development. Teachers (pre-primary to 4th grade) will participate in a 3-day ParentCorps-PD training during the school term. They will also receive 8 sessions (8 hours) of face-to-face group-based coaching during after the training. Coaching sessions are to help teachers apply EBI strategies in their classrooms, engage families, and develop competencies.

BEHAVIORAL

T-Wellness

A brief teacher stress management psychoeducation package, adapted from EBIs including one-day workshop for common stress management and stress management, and three follow-up group support sessions (3 additional monthly 1-hr wellness sessions for teachers as a group that were integrated into the 3 of the 8 PD coaching sessions. A total 3 hours of coaching were included.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Keng-Yen Huang, MD, MPH · NYU Langone Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-01
Primary Completion
2024-06-30
Completion
2025-02-28

Countries

  • Uganda

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