Clinical trial NCT02680899: Adolescent Mental Health InSciEd Out
Official title: Adolescent Outcomes in Mental Health InSciEd Out
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
Social Stigma
Mental Health Wellness 1
Mental Health Impairment
Keywords: science education
health promotion
mental health promotion
stigmatization
behavioral intervention
Lead sponsor: Mayo Clinic
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-02-12
Enrollment: 17
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The study herein seeks to determine whether students undergoing InSciEd Out curriculum in mental health and addiction (called My Mind, My Body) experience changes in their mental health-related knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behavioral intentions. The research group hypothesizes that students undergoing InSciEd Out mental health and addiction curriculum will exhibit pre-post increases in mental health literacy, decreases in mental health stigmatization, and increases in mental health help-seeking behavioral intentions.

Detailed description: Integrated Science Education Outreach (InSciEd Out) is one novel program that seeks to promote scientific and health literacy through fostering scientific inquiry. The guiding premise of InSciEd Out's health promotion arm is a concept called Prescription Education (PE), which uses science education as a direct and early intervention for disease behaviors. The underlying hypothesis of InSciEd Out PE is that a student who lives a scientific experience in his or her own voice (undergoes true inquiry-based science) will be empowered to elect healthier behaviors in any targeted health paradigm. PE's proposed mechanism of change is that inquiry-based science catalyzes transitions from knowledge to understanding to attitudes to intents to actual behavioral change.

InSciEd Out partnership with the the school in this study began in Spring of 2013 with a projected health promotion arm targeting mental health and addiction. The current iteration of the partnership commenced in Summer of 2014 under the annual InSciEd Out summer internship. This internship led to creation of grades 7 and 8 curriculum in mental health and addiction. Version 1 of this curriculum was piloted last year. A revised version of the curriculum will be implemented in Spring of 2016. Although there are education-specific metrics for assessment already built into program evaluation of InSciEd Out, there are currently no clinically relevant inventories in place to specifically probe efficacy of the lesson plans upon key mental health outcomes.

The study herein is the establishment of clinically relevant inventories around implemented InSciEd Out curriculum in mental health and addiction (called My Mind, My Body). These inventories are selected to measure student changes in their mental health-related knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking behavioral intentions. The research group hypothesizes that students undergoing InSciEd Out mental health and addiction curriculum will exhibit pre-post increases in mental health literacy, decreases in mental health stigmatization, and increases in mental health help-seeking behavioral intentions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria: Partner school students who do not opt out of and assent to the study

Exclusion Criteria: Partner school students opting out of or not assenting to the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Score on General Help-Seeking Questionnaire at 1 month
timeFrame: Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month
measure: Change from Baseline Score on Westbrook Mental Health Knowledge Test at 1 month
timeFrame: Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month
measure: Change from Baseline Score on Adolescent Attribution Questionnaire at 1 month
timeFrame: Baseline and then at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Teacher Report of Student Outcomes
timeFrame: Conducted at study completion, estimated to be ~1 month
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Rochester
country: United States
facility: Mayo Clinic in Rochester
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: Mayo Clinic
name: Christopher Pierret, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Mayo Clinic
name: Stephen C Ekker, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Mayo Clinic
name: Joanna Yang, BS
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Yang J, Lopez Cervera R, Tye SJ, Ekker SC, Pierret C. Adolescent mental health education InSciEd Out: a case study of an alternative middle school population. J Transl Med. 2018 Apr 3;16(1):84. doi: 10.1186/s12967-018-1459-x.