NCT05993026

A School-based Intervention to Promote Mental Health and Self-efficacy Among Students in 7th to 10th Grade

Evaluation of a School-based Intervention to Promote Mental Health and Self-efficacy Among Students in 7th to 10th Grade in Denmark: A Single-group Pre- and Post-test Design

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,966 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The present study is an evaluation of school-based intervention. The intervention aims to strengthen students' well-being and increase their mental health through training in tools that increase self-efficacy and ability to understand themselves and others. The Danish Committee for Health Education is responsible for developing and implementing the intervention and for recruiting schools, while the the Danish National Institute of Public Health at University of Southern Denmark is responsible for the evaluation of the intervention, including data collection, analysis and reporting.

Conditions

• Mental Health
• Self Efficacy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mental health course	The student course involves classroom-based teaching of eight lessons over eight weeks. The aim is to strengthen students' faith in their own abilities (self-efficacy) and ability to understand themselves and others (mentalization). In this way, students become better at entering into positive relationships and communities as well as better at handling everyday challenges both academically and socially. The student course includes teaching, exercises and training in simple tools for mastery and mentalization. The student courses in the classes are handled by staff close to the students and are based on both physical and digital material as well as an app for the students. The employees initially participate in a competency development course.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-15
• Primary completion: 2024-07-01
• Completion: 2024-07-01
• First posted: 2023-08-15
• Last updated: 2024-12-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark