Implementing a Digital Child Mental Health Screening, Literacy, and Management Tool in Faith-Based Settings

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The proposed project is to develop a Pediatric-Mental Health Digital Toolkit (P-MHDT) Toolkit to support innovative child mental health preventive interventions in FBO settings. This project focuses on developing a P-MHDT and carrying out a pilot feasibility evaluation in real world settings. A group of Mental Health Professionals (MHPs)/ Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) will be trained and the P-MHDT Toolkit intervention will be tested in 6 Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) in Uganda.

Detailed Description
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The specific aims of this proposed study include: Aim 1. To develop a P-MHDT (by employing qualitative focus-group interviews and user-centered design to enhance usability). Aim 2. To train mental health professionals and community health workers (CHWs) for the P-MHDT approach of child mental health promotion in Uganda (including monitoring impacts of training on CHWs' program implementation competency). Aim 3 (11-24 month). To estimate impacts of the P-MHDT on FBOs and families (i.e., caregivers' mental health literacy, practices, and children's mental health) when implemented in the real world FBO settings.

Official Title
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Implementing a Digital Child Mental Health Screening, Literacy, and Management Tool in Faith-Based Settings

Conditions
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Mental Health

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Faith Based Outreach (FBO)
* Behavioral: community-health-workers (CHW)


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Participants must be at least 18 years of age. Participating parents must be caregivers of age 1-7 years old children. Children are not the subjects of this study, and will not participate in research activities. Exclusion Criteria: Evidence of psychopathology or cognitive impairment severe enough to preclude giving consent, or completing the survey instruments or the focus group of the study. Minors (age <18) will also be excluded.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 90 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: intervention FBOs receive the P-MHDT<br> | Behavioral: Faith Based Outreach (FBO)<br>* Faith base outreach groups will be trained in P-MHDT<br>|
| Experimental: control FBOs receive no P-MHDT<br> | Behavioral: community-health-workers (CHW)<br>* COmmon health workers will be trained in P-MHDT<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aggression measured by parent report |  | 24 Months | 
| Anxiety measured by parent report |  | 24 Months | 
| Depression measured by parent report |  | 24 Months |