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CONSCIOUS: A Pilot Trial of a Media Orientation Intervention to Encourage Men's Help Seeking for Mental Health Difficulties

NCT07627451 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 74

Last updated 2026-06-04

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Summary

Mental health difficulties among males are an issue of public health concern. Men are also at higher risk of suicidal ideation and self-harm and are poor at help-seeking due to factors including stigma, cultural norms and gendered expectations of masculinity. Yet, in Nigeria, a significant gap remains in media orientation intervention to create awareness on symptoms of mental health difficulties and support channels to encourage help-seeking. In essence, the current study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of a novel intervention titled, psyChosOcial media awareNesS for SuiCIde symptoms, including other mental health PrOblems and help seeking mediUmS (CONSCIOUS) for addressing awareness of mental health difficulties in comparison to the waitlist control group for the purposes of improving men's help seeking, social support and reducing anxiety in Nigeria.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychosocial media campaign

The CONSCIOUS is 3 minutes recorded media message. The intervention is designed to promote awareness on how to prevent suicidal ideation and self-harm, stigma reduction and avenues or mediums for help-seeking. The core message is composed of three key ambits: 1) emphasizing what is meant by suicidal ideation and self-harm (ii) the need to seek help and stop societal stigmatising behaviour (iii) Avenues for help seeking and improved mental health and wellbeing.

OTHER

Intervention as usual

Current available interventions to foster help seeking including leaflets, community health centre provision of information etc. This group will be later offered the CONSCIOUS intervention after completion of baseline and end of intervention assessment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Manchester

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Jos University Teaching Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Teesside University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-30
Primary Completion
2027-06-03
Completion
2027-06-03

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