Clinical trial NCT05034198: Remote Training in Rural Schools
Official title: Development and Pilot Testing of a Remote Training Strategy for the Implementation of Mental Health Evidence-Based Practices in Rural Schools
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Behavior Disorders
Keywords: Positive-behavior Interventions and Supports
Evidence-based Practices
Tier 2
Mental Health
Rural Schools
Lead sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Devereux Center for Effective Schools
name: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
First posted: 2021-09-05
Enrollment: 26
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Rural areas have fewer, and less well trained, health care providers than non-rural areas. Schools have become more involved in the delivery of mental health services and hold great potential for increasing access to children and adolescents. Innovations in training and service delivery are needed to improve mental health care quality and availability in rural schools. Evidence-based practices (EBPs) can be incorporated into school-wide multi-tiered systems that are currently used to improve school climate and safety. School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a service-delivery strategy based on the public health model is one example. Investigators will use an iterative process (Rapid Prototyping) to develop and evaluate the appropriateness, feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a remote training strategy that provides resources to support use of Tier 2 EBPs and effective support for care coordination practices in rural schools.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Any BHS (e.g., school counselor, school social worker or teacher who is under employment from a school district) based at a school implementing PBIS and who may be nominated by the principal as a potential participant is eligible to be included in the study. Additionally, the research staff will reach out to school behavioral health staff concurrently with the school principal. BHS staff will provide consent to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

Staff from schools not implementing PBIS.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Stakeholder Input
timeFrame: Up to 2 years
measure: Asynchronous Training Platform Development
timeFrame: Up to 2 years
measure: Synchronous Training Platform Development
timeFrame: Up to 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
name: Ricardo Eiraldi, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Eiraldi R, McCurdy BL, Khanna MS, Goldstein J, Comly R, Francisco J, Rutherford LE, Wilson T, Henson K, Farmer T, Jawad AF. Development and evaluation of a remote training strategy for the implementation of mental health evidence-based practices in rural schools: pilot study protocol. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2022 Jun 17;8(1):128. doi: 10.1186/s40814-022-01082-4.