NCT04208113

Stress-free Everyday LiFe for Children and Adolescents REsearch

Stress-free Everyday LiFe for Children and Adolescents REsearch (SELFCARE). A Protocol for a Cluster Randomised Trial Testing a School Teacher Training Programme to Deliver the .b Programme in Danish Schools.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,774 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of a profound school teacher training programme to teach a mindfulness-based programme (.b) in Danish schools on the pupils self-reported mental well-being at seven months. The secondary aims are to evaluate i) the effectiveness of the profound school teacher training programme to teach the .b-programme in Danish schools on the pupils self-reported mental well-being post intervention (at five months).

Detailed description

The study is a cluster randomised trial. From May 2018 - May 2019, we recruited the total of 110 Danish schools (27 schools from the Capital Region of Denmark, 18 schools from Region Zealand, 25 schools from Region of Southern Denmark, 30 schools from Central Denmark Region and 10 schools from Region of Northern Denmark). The schools included the total of 191 school teachers for teacher training (56 teachers from the Capital Region of Denmark, 28 teachers from Region Zealand, 42 teachers from Region of Southern Denmark, 50 teachers from Central Denmark Region and 15 teachers from Region of Northern Denmark). Each included teacher will be asked to recruit a class of pupils (15-25 pupils) to test the effectiveness of the .b-programme (in total approx. 3000 pupils).

Conditions

• Mental Health
• Children
• Adolescent
• Mindfulness
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	School teacher training /.b	The intervention is a multi-level, multi-component complex intervention. It consists of a school teacher training programme and the .b-programme to be delivered to pupils 11-15 years in the schools. The school teacher training programme consists of three parts: 1) the establishment of own mindfulness practice by participation in the MBSR programme and sustaining mindfulness with a regular formal daily practice; 2) completion of the four days .b residential course, and 3) completion of the 3x2-days seminars on relational competences and implementation issues regarding teaching .b . The .b programme consists of well-described, weekly 40-60 minutes classroom sessions over 10 weeks. All the sessions have a specific theme, associated teachers' notes, power points and animations. The .b programme can only be delivered with fidelity by a trained .b teacher.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-11
• Primary completion: 2021-06-22
• Completion: 2021-06-22
• First posted: 2019-12-23
• Last updated: 2024-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark