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Testing Multi-level Scale-Up Strategies: Ugandan School System

NCT07466563 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1556

Last updated 2026-03-12

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Summary

The overall objective of the project is to address the school mental health evidence-based interventions (EBIs) scale-up and sustainability challenges in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) by studying "system level intervention" strategies. The project tests a scale-up model utilizing a two-level train-the-trainer model to support the expansion of an evidence-based intervention (mWEL -Teacher Professional Development; PD) in one LMIC (Uganda). mWEL-PD is the abbreviation of "Promoting Mental Wellbeing \& Empowering Lives of the School Community". mWEL -PD is a teacher intervention that trains teachers to apply evidence-based strategies to engage parents and to promote student's mental health in classroom, as well as to promote teachers' own mental wellbeing. PD has been adapted and tested in Uganda and has demonstrated effectiveness in promoting Ugandan teachers' practices, teacher wellbeing, and students' mental health. Previous studies only applied one-level of the train-the-trainer model. This new study will test a new two-level of the train-the-trainer model that include a digital-learning system to scale PD, so that more teachers can be trained on PD, and more students can benefit from teachers' training and practice changes. Investigators will also test the new EBI/PD scale-up model with and without including additional sustainability strategies (including technical assistance and continuing education strategies). Investigators will carry out an evaluation study (using a cluster-randomized trial design) to understand the impacts of the new two-level training model. The participants of the study will be the trainers and trainees, and the outcomes will be their implementation and practice outcomes.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

EBI Support

Technical assistance and continuous learning strategies to support sustainable EBI implementation.

BEHAVIORAL

Mental Health Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs).

EBIs addressing mental health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • NYU Langone Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Keng-Yen Huang, MPH, PhD · NYU Langone Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-03-02
Primary Completion
2028-08-31
Completion
2029-03-31

Countries

  • Uganda

Study Locations

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