nctId: NCT06275672 id: TREAT INTERACT briefTitle: Implementing an Education- and Health System Task-shifting Approach for Child Mental Health Promotion in Uganda acronym: TREAT overallStatus: RECRUITING date: 2023-08-01 date: 2025-05 date: 2025-12 date: 2024-02-23 date: 2024-02-23 name: Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies class: OTHER name: Makerere University name: University of Bergen name: Norwegian Institute of Public Health name: Norwegian University of Science and Technology briefSummary: This study will adapt a school version (mhGAP-IGs) of the World Health Organization´s (WHO) "Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide" (mhGAP). Both teachers and health workers will receive training in mhGAP, and systems for collaboration between the school and health sector as well as other relevant stakeholders will be developed and integrated. The project is conducted in close collaboration with key stakeholders from the Ministry, the health and education sector, the police, and religious leaders. The aim is to increase mental health literacy among school staff, facilitate a healthy school environment, and increase detection of mental health needs among primary school aged children. conditions: Mental Health Issue conditions: Stigma, Social conditions: Child Development conditions: Child Abuse studyType: INTERVENTIONAL phases: NA allocation: RANDOMIZED interventionModel: SEQUENTIAL interventionModelDescription: Stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to randomize 18 schools into six cohorts of three schools incrementally. primaryPurpose: PREVENTION masking: NONE count: 180 type: ESTIMATED name: Adapted version of the mhGAP-IG measure: Reach questionnaire, developed by the project group measure: The Program Sustainability tool (Finch et al., 2013) measure: Service measure on access to mental health care, developed by the project group measure: Attitudes about Child Mental Health (Perceived Discrimination-Devaluation (Link et al., 1987) questionnaire measure: The dimensions of discipline inventory, school (DDI; Strauss & Faucher, 2007) measure: Treatment at home, developed by the project group, by inspiration from our siste project "TREAT C-AUD") measure: The Implementation Quality Questionnaire (Bogen, 2020) measure: Fidelity Scale, developed by the project group measure: General Health Questionnaire (GHQ; Goldberg, 1970) measure: Attitudes on Gender Norms (Waszak et al., 2000) questionnaire measure: Help-seeking behaviour, developed by the project group after inspiration from Yifeng et al., 2022 measure: Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC-17; Jellinek et al., 1998) measure: Teacher Support Scale (TSS; Metheny, McWhirter, & O'Neil, 2008) measure: Teacher violence scale (Piskin et al, 2014) measure: The dimensions of discipline inventory, home (DDI; Strauss & Faucher, 2007) measure: The Implementation Leadership Scale (Aarons, Ehrhart, et al., 2014) measure: Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change (Shea et al., 2014) measure: Teacher concerns about child mental health, developed by the project group, after inspiration from Yifeng et al., 2022 measure: Provider Report of Sustainment Scale (PRESS) (Moullin et al., 2021) (PRESS): development and validation (PRESS; Moullin et al., 2021) measure: Mental health knowledge (Evans-Lacko et al., measure: AUDIT scale (WHO) measure: Child alcohol use, developed by the project group measure: Child mental health - Pediatric symptoms (Jelinek et al.) measure: Perceived teacher support and its influence on adolescent career development (Metheny et al., 2008) measure: Sexual violence, developed by the project group measure: Dimensions of discipline inventory (DDI; Straus and Fauchier, 2007) sex: ALL minimumAge: 5 Years maximumAge: 18 Years stdAges: CHILD stdAges: ADULT facility: Nowegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies status: RECRUITING city: Oslo zip: 0655 country: Norway name: Ane-Marthe Skar, PhD role: CONTACT phone: 97661591 email: amskar@gmail.com lat: 59.91273 lon: 10.74609 hasResults: False