Prevention Programme for Improvement of Well-being and Level of Participation in Adolescents With Enhanced Psychiatric Burden in the School Environment.

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age10-14
SponsorRWTH Aachen University

About this trial

The objectives of this two-arm phase-IIa randomized, controlled study are:

* to prove whether the combination of a clinic-guided personal counseling with a therapy-assistive digital support (blinded care approach) and a training of digital and mental health literacy is superior to a teacher-guided training of digital and mental health literacy only (treatment as usual) concerning the reduction of psychiatric burden in adolescents. * to improve the well-being and level of participation in adolescents at risk for psychiatric disorders. * to reduce the expression of psychiatric symptoms in adolescents with enhanced psychiatric burden. * to test whether the combination of a clinic-guided personal counseling with a therapy-assistive digital support is well accepted by students, their parents, and teachers. * to identify individual factors predicting the improvement of well-being and level of participation in adolescents as well as the acceptance of the prevention program in all subjects involved (students, parents, teachers, psychologists). * to investigate whether the clinic-guided personal counseling with a therapy-assistive digital support causes reduction of primary and secondary costs in the psychosocial support system and represents an economic advantage.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Children and adolescents of both genders (w : m = 1 : 1) aged from 10 to 14 years

Psychiatric symptoms characterized using SDQ-25 with the cutoff > 17

Regular school attendence

Disqualifiers

IQ <80, ongoing psychiatric or psychotherapeutic treatment with regular appointments (at least once a month).

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • blinded-care counselling
  • App STEPS
  • digital and mental literacy training

Treatment groups

100 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators