Clinical trial NCT06204029: Everyone Can Sing: A Feasibility Study of a Mental Health Promoting Intervention Among 0-3rd Grade Students
Official title: Everyone Can Sing. A Feasibility Study of Class Choir as a Mental Health Promoting Intervention Among 0-3rd Grade Students
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Health
Keywords: Mental Health
Students
Teachers
Primary School
Mental health promotion
Intervention
Feasibility study
Denmark
Lead sponsor: University of Southern Denmark
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: TrygFonden, Denmark
First posted: 2024-01-12
Enrollment: 910
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 10
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study aims to explore the feasibility of implementing and evaluating a class-based intervention in three Danish primary schools. The intervention includes class choir among all students in 0 to 3rd grade as part of the regular school schedule.

Detailed description: Approximately every fifth child in Denmark experience mental health problems, mental illness, or low levels of school thriving before the age of ten, and 15% of Danish adolescent are diagnosed with a mental disorder before they turn 18. The experience of mental health problems, low school thriving and mental illness in childhood and adolescence is a severe risk factor for school segregation, low grades, school dropout and mental illness in youth and adulthood. There is therefore an urgent need for feasible and effective mental health promoting and preventive interventions from early childhood. High-quality music singing (e.g. choir singing) can promote well-being, social inclusion in school, and positive social relations among school-children, which are key prerequisites for strengthening children's mental health. However, the potential benefits of this type of intervention have not been evaluated in a Danish context. Therefore, we developed the Alle kan synge (AKS; in English: Everyone can sing) intervention as a prototype for implementation and dissemination.

The aim of this feasibility study is to explore the feasibility of implementing the AKS intervention in three Danish primary schools and assess feasibility of the evaluation design. Findings will provide knowledge on the critical aspects of the intervention, which may lead to a possible refinement of the AKS intervention, the implementation processes or evaluation design.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria: All students in grades 0 to 3 (typically aged 5 to 10 years) in three different Danish elementary schools

Exclusion Criteria: None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mental Health. It will be completed by the student's parents and schoolteacher.
timeFrame: Measurements at baseline and 1-year follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mental health. It will be completed by the students.
timeFrame: Measurements at baseline and 1-year follow-up
measure: School thriving. It will be completed by the students.
timeFrame: Measurements at baseline and 1-year follow-up
measure: Class coherence. It will be completed by the students.
timeFrame: Measurements at baseline and 1-year follow-up
measure: Social inclusion. It will be completed by the students.
timeFrame: Measurements at baseline and 1-year follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: University of Southern Denmark
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Southern Denmark
name: Katrine R Madsen
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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