Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Mental Health First Aid for College Students: A Multi-campus Randomized Control Trial of a Community Health Intervention
Brief Summary: Most college students with mental disorders do not receive treatment, and over 80% of those who die by suicide have never made contact with campus mental health services. Knowledge, stigma, and other health beliefs represent significant barriers to help-seeking for many of these students. However, there have been no large-scale intervention studies for reducing these barriers to mental health treatment on college campuses. This project will fill this gap by determining whether a community mental health education program, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), is an effective method to increase number of students who seek mental health services on college campuses. MHFA is an international, 12-hour training program that has been shown to increase knowledge of mental illnesses and their treatments, decrease stigma, and increase helping behaviors in community members. However, it has not been tested in a college setting in the United States. To determine the effectiveness of MHFA in US colleges, the proposed project will involve a randomized control trial of the MHFA training program on 32 campuses representing a range of higher education institutions, from community colleges in rural areas to research universities in large, urban areas. The MHFA training program will be administered to peer supports such as residential advisors. Administrative data from campus mental health services and pre- and post-intervention surveys will be used to collect outcome data on service utilization, knowledge, attitudes, and other measures. Data analyses will focus on identifying changes in students' behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes toward mental illnesses that can be attributed to the MHFA training. In addition to testing a novel and timely mental health intervention for college students, this project will result in improved data collection measures for college populations, and will lay the foundation for stronger connections and future collaborations between diverse campus communities. If the MHFA program is successful in reducing stigma and increasing general on-campus awareness and early treatment of emerging mental health problems, then it may provide a cost-effective means for enabling more students to seek early treatments for developing mental health problems.


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A: Arm Label: Training course; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Mental Health First-aid | Arm Label: Waiting list; Type: OTHER; Interventions: Other: Mental Health First-aid | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Mental Health First-aid; Assigned to Arm(s): Training course, Waiting list
B: Arm Label: Mental Health First Aid Intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mental Health First Aid | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mental Health First Aid; Assigned to Arm(s): Mental Health First Aid Intervention
C: Arm Label: Contact-based mental health education; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Beyond Silence | Arm Label: Mental health literacy training; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Beyond Silence; Assigned to Arm(s): Contact-based mental health education | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mental Health First Aid (MHFA); Assigned to Arm(s): Mental health literacy training
D: Arm Label: Pure control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Intervention residence on mixed campus; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mental Health First Aid | Arm Label: Pure intervention residence; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Mental Health First Aid | Arm Label: Control at mixed campus; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Mental Health First Aid; Assigned to Arm(s): Intervention residence on mixed campus, Pure intervention residence

Answer: D