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Advancing mHealth-supported Adoption and Sustainment of an Evidence-based Mental Health Intervention in Sierra Leone

NCT05737667 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1454

Last updated 2025-04-29

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Summary

This study will examine a new implementation strategy for the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI), an evidence-based mental health intervention. The strategy will (a) leverage a delivery setting (schools) and workforce (teachers) used effectively in low- and middle- income countries; and (b) innovate with technology and mHealth tools to enhance mental health service delivery quality. The YRI will be implemented as an extracurricular resilience-building after school activity in Sierra Leone. Teachers will deliver the YRI and receive either mobile phone-supported supervision or standard in-person supervision. Mobile-based supervision will integrate WhatsApp, a free cross-platform messaging and voice service used widely throughout Africa, with mHealth digital tools. The mHealth tools will support supervision through key features, including voice activated content, fillable forms (i.e., YRI fidelity checklist), and visual dashboards to monitor fidelity. A hybrid type 3 implementation-effectiveness design will allow for evaluation of both mobile phone-based supervision as a new implementation strategy, and clinical effectiveness of the YRI on youth mental and behavioral health as secondary outcomes.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI)

The YRI is a culturally adapted group intervention that integrates common practice elements of cognitive behavioral and interpersonal therapies. The YRI's core treatment elements target improving emotion regulation skills, interpersonal functioning, and problem-solving skills. The YRI has 12 session that last about 90 minutes. The YRI will be delivered in schools by teachers receiving either mobile-based supervision or standard, in-person supervision.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Brown University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alethea Desrosiers, Ph.D. · Brown University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-15
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2027-02-28

Countries

  • Sierra Leone

Study Locations

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