"One All" to Get it RYT (Resilient Young Tribal Adults)

Summary

:The study is designed to introduce a curriculum "One All", organised around the sport, Ultimate Frisbee, as a way to improve mental health resilience. This research will examine the feasibility and effectiveness of the intervention in two locations, Gudalur in Tamil Nadu and BR Hills in Karnataka.

Objectives:

The primary objective is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of "One All" intervention among young people, evaluate its key component of facilitators training programme and assess its effectiveness in improving the mental health and resilience, in two tribal communities in South India.

Methods:

The effectiveness of the intervention (One All) will be evaluated at three time points at 12 months and 18 months. Phase i and 2 will be training of facilitators and focussed group discussion with elders and other significant others.

Phase 3 Includes; A quantitative assessment of the intended outcomes of curriculum at the end of the intervention. This will be a pre-post study (n=119) each for boys and girls).The outcomes will be assessed at 12 months and 18 months of intervention.

The sports based psychosocial curriculum "OneAll' is assessed as feasible and effective amongst the tribal young people in south India.

Conditions

• Healthy Human Volunteers
• Youth Resilience

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

"One All" Intervention

One-all is a Three-year curriculum targeted at specific outcomes for each yearfacilitated by young people from the community. The facilitators are inducted througha rigorous facilitators programme of three to five months' length. The facilitators areencouraged to adapt the program to their needs and provide the programme incustomized forms appropriate and as required for the communities. The interventionhas thus far been provided to the fishermen communities in Chennai and anecdotalfield evidence suggest, gains in the intended goals. After these experiences theintervention was being tried amongst the tribal adolescents in Gudalur. One-alltargets to provide the undermentioned skills to achieve the mentioned Goals andSkills: * self-management • understanding feelings * social awareness • conflict resolution * relationship skills • empathy building * self-awareness Skills •nurturing interpersonal relationships * identity building • awareness about gender stereotypes

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health

  collaborator NIH

• Association for Health Welfare in the Nilgiris

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Pittsburgh

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, MD, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

12 Years

Max Age

25 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-04-22

Primary Completion

2026-12-31

Completion

2026-12-31

Countries

• India

Study Locations