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WHO Mental Health Gap Action Program (mhGAP) for Improving Child Mental and Behavioral Disorder Service Quality in China

NCT06702410 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 375

Last updated 2025-05-16

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the adapted mhGAP intervention guide (mhGAP-IG) can improve quality of child mental and behavioral disorders (CMBDs) services in China. It will also learn about the implementation of the mhGAP-IG delivered by kindergarten teachers. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does the adapted mhGAP-IG reduce the symptom severity among children with CMBDs between two and sis years old?
* Does the adapted mhGAP-IG reduce psychological distress among caregivers of children with CMBDs?
* Does the adapted mhGAP-IG improve mental and behavioral health serivces capacity among kindergarten teachers in China?
* How is the feasibility, acceptablity, and what are barriers and facilitators of implementation?

Researchers will compare the adapted mhGAP-IG to child healthcare as usual to see if the adapted mhGAP-IG can improve quality of child mental and behavioral disorders services in China.

Participants (kindergarten teachers) will:

* Complete questionnaires and scales at baseline and at 3-, 6-, 9- and 12- months of intervention;
* Receive mhGAP-based trainings;
* Deliver long-term child mental and behavioral disorders services (including screenings, referals, follow-up, and physcosocial interventions) to children with CMBDs.

Participants (children/caregivers) will:

* Complete questionnaires and scales at baseline and at 3-, 6- and 12- months of intervention.
* Accept long-term CMBDs management (including screenings, referals, follow-up management, and physcosocial interventions) from mhGAP-trained kindergarten teachers.

Conditions

  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

mental health gap action program intervention guide (mhGAP-IG)

The mhGAP-IG is an evidence-based intervention developed by WHO. It was designed for non-specialists to scale up high quality mental health services. Although more than 90 countries worldwide have implemented mhGAP-IG, this study is the first to evaluated if it works for scaling up CMBDs services in China. Investigators have cultrually adapted the mhGAP-IG according Chinese context.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sun Yat-sen University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wen Chen, PhD · Medical statistics, School of public health, Sun Yat-sen University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-11-20
Primary Completion
2026-02-20
Completion
2026-02-20

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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