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Impact of Preventive Mental Health Programme on Social/Emotional Functioning and Resilience in Children in South Africa

NCT06445777 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2024-10-15

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effectiveness of a mental health prevention and promotion programme delivered to children (ages 8 to 13) living in under-resourced communities in South Africa.

The main question it aims to answer is:

Does the programme increase resilience and improve psychological well-being?

Participants will be asked to attend the programme twice a week after school for a period of six weeks and complete a series of questionnaires.

Researchers will compare children who attended the programme to those who did not to see if the programme resulted in better social/emotional functioning and resilience.

Conditions

  • Psychological Well-Being

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mental Health Prevention and Promotion

The Inner Lion Programme is made up of 12 interactive workshops which are based on four key pillars: building confidence by identifying strengths and personal qualities; improving emotional intelligence and self-awareness; establishing adaptive coping strategies and channels of support; and boosting resilience. Professionally created by Child Psychologist Stijn de Leeuw together with an advisory team of psychologists from the Netherlands and South Africa, the programme follows a carefully structured and curated prevention and promotion mental health curriculum with games, crafting activities, psycho-educational stories, dance, movement, and breathing exercises. Workshops are led by local role models (a male-female duo) with lived experience trained to be mental health coaches.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Cape Town

    collaborator OTHER

  • King's College London

    collaborator OTHER

  • Little Lions Child Coaching

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan Malcolm-Smith · University of Cape Town

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-08-19
Primary Completion
2024-12-10
Completion
2025-03-31

Countries

  • South Africa

Study Locations

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