Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond 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.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

people, who in their line of work are in contact with many different individuals

Exclusion Criteria:

none
B: Inclusion Criteria: organisations expressing an interest (directly to MHFAE) in undertaking MHFA training, who have not undertaken this training previously; organisations who agree to participate and are able to provide data on sickness absenteeism, presenteeism and other productivity data

Exclusion Criteria: organisations who have already introduced MHFA across all sites and departments; those who decline to participate in adopting MHFA training; organisations and employees who participated in the pilot study.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Employee (full-time, part-time or contract) in the participating healthcare organization
* Willing and able to participate in 12 hours of training outside of paid work hours
* Able to understand and speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

* Prior training in either of the two educational approaches
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Student enrolled in a participating campus as a full-time, residential undergraduate during the 2009-2010 or 2010-2011 academic years. Student must have been living in a participating residence hall.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students under 18 years of age.

Answer: D