NCT04610333

On Top of Everything

On Top of Everything. A Study Protocol for a Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial Testing a Teacher Training Programme to Teach Mindfulness Among Students in Danish Upper Secondary Schools and Schools of Health and Social Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 992 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Our primary aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher training programme to teach mindfulness as part of regular classroom teaching in the total population of students in Danish upper secondary schools and schools of health and social care, respectively, on students' self-reported mental health at six-month follow-up. Our secondary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher training programme to teach mindfulness in a vulnerable subgroup of students on their self-reported mental health at three and six months after baseline.

Detailed description

The study is designed as a pragmatic cluster randomised two-arm trial including 43 Danish schools (30 upper secondary schools and 13 schools of health and social care). The schools included a total of 76 school teachers for teacher training (44 teachers from upper secondary schools and 32 teachers from schools of health and social care). Each included teacher will be asked to recruit a class of students (15-30 students) to test the effectiveness of the modified MBSR programme (in total approx. 1.000 students).

Conditions

• Mental Health
• Youth
• Mindfulness
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Modified MBSR programme	1 hour group session once a week in 10 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-13
• Primary completion: 2021-11-24
• Completion: 2021-11-24
• First posted: 2020-10-30
• Last updated: 2024-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark