Clinical trial NCT05454592: Peer-Presented Versus Mental Health Service Provider-Presented Mental Health Outreach Programs for University Students
Official title: Peer-Presented Versus Mental Health Service Provider-Presented Mental Health Outreach Programs for University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress
Self Efficacy
Social Support
Social Connectedness
Mindfulness
Quality of Life
Lead sponsor: McGill University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
First posted: 2022-07-12
Enrollment: 274
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 29
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The overarching goal of the present study was to evaluate a MHSP-presented versus peer-presented mental health resilience skills-building online video outreach program against a wait-list comparison group.

Detailed description: Participants were recruited using a study flyer distributed to students in-person on campus and online through email listservs, social media platforms, and from an existing database of university students who participated in previous studies and agreed to be followed-up with. Given the self-paced nature of the program, a staggered recruitment approach was used wherein new participants completed the online baseline questionnaires between January 2020 until early March 2020.

Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three groups (MHSP-presented, peer-presented, or a wait-list comparison group), while counterbalancing the three groups based on gender and preference for seeking help from MHSPs or peers (i.e., using results from the General Help-seeking Questionnaire). Two weeks after the baseline questionnaire was sent, participants in the intervention groups received either the MHSP-presented video or the peer-presented video (video 1) depending on which group they were randomly assigned to, as well as a link for access to the resource library. The following two videos were sent two weeks apart. Participants were encouraged to access the resource library over the duration of the program and were reminded with each video link sent. All participants then received post (T2) and follow-up measures (T3) 6 and 10 weeks following the baseline completion respectively. Participants in the wait-list comparison group were only asked to complete evaluation measures at the three time points (they only received the videos and resource library at the end of the study). Following completion of the study, students received an e-mail with a personalized profile indicating their individual scores on various measures and all participants received full access to the program resources (videos and resource library).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Participants were eligible for the study if they were between 18- 29 years of age, given the unique stressors associated with the developmental period of emerging adulthood (18-29 years old).
* Participants were required to have access to the internet (at least weekly) as the study was completed entirely online.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Stress
timeFrame: Week 1, 6 & 10
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Coping Self-efficacy
timeFrame: Week 1, 6 & 10
measure: Change in Social Support
timeFrame: Week 1, 6 & 10
measure: Change in Social Connectedness
timeFrame: Week 1, 6 & 10
measure: Change in Mindfulness
timeFrame: Week 1, 6 & 10
measure: Change in Quality of life
timeFrame: Week 1, 6 & 10
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: McGill University
state: Quebec
Study officials:
References:
citation: Bastien L, Boke BN, Mettler J, Zito S, Di Genova L, Romano V, Lewis SP, Whitley R, Iyer SN, Heath NL. Peer-Presented Versus Mental Health Service Provider-Presented Mental Health Outreach Programs for University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Ment Health. 2022 Jul 22;9(7):e34168. doi: 10.2196/34168.