Youth Promotion of Resilience Involving Mental E-health

Summary

There is a critical gap in access to mental health promotion, prevention and support among youth worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries like Vietnam. The Y-PRIME Study aims to respond to this gap by co-designing with Vietnamese youth a mobile app that delivers life skills and self-management skills intervention to promote mental well-being in grade 10 Vietnamese students. Working with the Vietnam Youth Advisory Council (V-YAC) to adapt and co-design the intervention and app ensure that the intervention will be culturally appropriate and relevant to Vietnamese youth. The goal of the current phase is to test this intervention with grade 10 students across three provinces (Hanoi, Thai Binh, and Hung Yen) to assess:

1. Whether the app helps to improve mental well-being and resilience among youth in Vietnam and helps to reduce factors that might increase the risk of poor mental well-being, like stress related to school and other pressures
2. Whether the app can be delivered in Vietnamese schools
3. Whether Vietnamese youth and school staff think the app is appropriate and appealing for youth in order to scale-up the model across the country

The control group (meaning they do not have access to the app-based intervention) will complete the outcome survey at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. After 12 months, they will gain access to the intervention app (at the same time as the experimental group) but no more data will be collected. The intervention group will use the app at their own pace for 1 year while completing the same survey at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months marks. Afterwards, students and school health staff will be invited to a focus group discussion to talk about their experience using the app.

Conditions

• Mental Well-being
• Resilience
• Population Study

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention app

The app-based intervention, co-designed with the V-YAC, aims to introduce life skills and self-management skills to promote general mental well-being and resilience among Vietnamese youth. With this app, youth users will have a fun and safe space to learn and practice six life skills areas (Problem-solving, Social Media and Well-being, Communication and Interpersonal Skills, Realistic Thinking, Coping with Emotions and Stress, and Goal Setting). Lessons (in the form of short texts) and activities (ex. multiple choice activities, blank worksheets, reflection questions) were adapted from evidence-based interventions developed in other contexts to be culturally appropriate to the Vietnamese youth context. Youth users are free to explore the app at their own pace. Gamification features will also allow youth users to collect points in the app for completing each lesson, activity, or challenge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• St. Francis Xavier University

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Institute of Population, Health and Development, Vietnam

  collaborator OTHER

• Simon Fraser University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Melbourne

  collaborator OTHER

• University of British Columbia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Raymond Lam, MD · University of British Columbia

• Jill Murphy, PhD · St. Francis Xavier University

• Nguyen Vu, MD · Institute of Population Health and Development

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

16 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-01-10

Primary Completion

2028-03-31

Completion

2028-03-31

Countries

• Vietnam

Study Locations