protocolSection identificationModule nctId: NCT06275672, orgStudyIdInfo id: TREAT INTERACT, briefTitle: Implementing an Education- and Health System Task-shifting Approach for Child Mental Health Promotion in Uganda, acronym: TREAT, statusModule overallStatus: RECRUITING, startDateStruct date: 2023-08-01, primaryCompletionDateStruct date: 2025-05, completionDateStruct date: 2025-12, studyFirstPostDateStruct date: 2024-02-23, lastUpdatePostDateStruct date: 2024-02-23, sponsorCollaboratorsModule leadSponsor name: Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, class: OTHER, collaborators name: Makerere University, collaborators name: University of Bergen, collaborators name: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, collaborators name: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, descriptionModule 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., conditionsModule conditions: Mental Health Issue, conditions: Stigma, Social, conditions: Child Development, conditions: Child Abuse, designModule studyType: INTERVENTIONAL, phases: NA, designInfo allocation: RANDOMIZED, interventionModel: SEQUENTIAL, interventionModelDescription: Stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to randomize 18 schools into six cohorts of three schools incrementally., primaryPurpose: PREVENTION, maskingInfo masking: NONE, enrollmentInfo count: 180, type: ESTIMATED, armsInterventionsModule interventions name: Adapted version of the mhGAP-IG, outcomesModule primaryOutcomes measure: Reach questionnaire, developed by the project group, primaryOutcomes measure: The Program Sustainability tool (Finch et al., 2013), primaryOutcomes measure: Service measure on access to mental health care, developed by the project group, primaryOutcomes measure: Attitudes about Child Mental Health (Perceived Discrimination-Devaluation (Link et al., 1987) questionnaire, primaryOutcomes measure: The dimensions of discipline inventory, school (DDI; Strauss & Faucher, 2007), primaryOutcomes measure: Treatment at home, developed by the project group, by inspiration from our siste project "TREAT C-AUD"), secondaryOutcomes measure: The Implementation Quality Questionnaire (Bogen, 2020), secondaryOutcomes measure: Fidelity Scale, developed by the project group, secondaryOutcomes measure: General Health Questionnaire (GHQ; Goldberg, 1970), secondaryOutcomes measure: Attitudes on Gender Norms (Waszak et al., 2000) questionnaire, secondaryOutcomes measure: Help-seeking behaviour, developed by the project group after inspiration from Yifeng et al., 2022, secondaryOutcomes measure: Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC-17; Jellinek et al., 1998), secondaryOutcomes measure: Teacher Support Scale (TSS; Metheny, McWhirter, & O'Neil, 2008), secondaryOutcomes measure: Teacher violence scale (Piskin et al, 2014), secondaryOutcomes measure: The dimensions of discipline inventory, home (DDI; Strauss & Faucher, 2007), secondaryOutcomes measure: The Implementation Leadership Scale (Aarons, Ehrhart, et al., 2014), secondaryOutcomes measure: Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change (Shea et al., 2014), secondaryOutcomes measure: Teacher concerns about child mental health, developed by the project group, after inspiration from Yifeng et al., 2022, secondaryOutcomes measure: Provider Report of Sustainment Scale (PRESS) (Moullin et al., 2021) (PRESS): development and validation (PRESS; Moullin et al., 2021), secondaryOutcomes measure: Mental health knowledge (Evans-Lacko et al.,, secondaryOutcomes measure: AUDIT scale (WHO), secondaryOutcomes measure: Child alcohol use, developed by the project group, secondaryOutcomes measure: Child mental health - Pediatric symptoms (Jelinek et al.), secondaryOutcomes measure: Perceived teacher support and its influence on adolescent career development (Metheny et al., 2008), secondaryOutcomes measure: Sexual violence, developed by the project group, secondaryOutcomes measure: Dimensions of discipline inventory (DDI; Straus and Fauchier, 2007), eligibilityModule sex: ALL, minimumAge: 5 Years, maximumAge: 18 Years, stdAges: CHILD, stdAges: ADULT, contactsLocationsModule locations facility: Nowegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, status: RECRUITING, city: Oslo, zip: 0655, country: Norway, contacts name: Ane-Marthe Skar, PhD, role: CONTACT, phone: 97661591, email: amskar@gmail.com, geoPoint lat: 59.91273, lon: 10.74609, hasResults: False