An Early Phase 1 interventional study of Web-based interactive education and Text and Video-based education in Mental Disorders, sponsored by University of Sao Paulo. Completed. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2013-05-22.
Sponsored by University of Sao Paulo · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Prevention
The purpose of this study is to create a web-based interactive educational environment to train elementary teachers, to identify children and adolescents in need of specialized mental health care and give them some advises in managing problematic children in class. After the creation of such an educational environment the psychoeducational project was tested in order to verify it's effectiveness.
Objectives: To develop and test the efficacy of a computer-based training to elementary school teachers of the most common mental health problems.
Outcomes: (a)early identification of the most common mental health problems among children and adolescents, (b)teacher's acquirement of manage skills to better deal with behavior problems and (c)teacher's acquisition of important knowledge to refer students to treatment when necessary.
Method: This research includes two steps: a pilot project (already implemented, whose data will be presented here) and a randomized clinical trial intervention (that will be implemented in a few months).
Outcome measures: knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of teachers in mental health and satisfaction with the training received.
Results: The results show that there was an increase in knowledge, attitude changes in mental health and reducing stigma among teachers of web-based interactive educational group. Indeed, comparing the three groups of study participants (WBIE, TVBE and WL), was verified that TVBE group compared with WL group did not show a significant statistical difference (B = 0.957, p = 0.127). Comparing WBIE with WL group, the WBIE answers correctly 1:44 (B = 1.44, p = 0.015). Regarding beliefs and attitudes, WBIE group increased significantly in the ability to identify children with mental health problems, search for mental health information, the ability to recognize colleagues with mental health problems. The average confidence in helping a student with mental health problems also showed increased after psychoeducational intervention in WBIE group.
Discussion: After adjusting educational tools, the methodology and with a bigger sample it's expected to have greater positive results. It's very important to offer teachers a basic apparatus so that they will be able to deal with mental health issues in schools.
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This group was submited to the web-based interactive education created for train teachers in child mental health, how to identify mental health problems in children and to know how to deal with problematic children in class.
Behavioral: Web-based interactive education · Behavioral: Text and Video-based education
This group received the material that composed the web-based education environment without any kind of interactivity. This material was composed by some videos about children mental health and a support text.
Behavioral: Web-based interactive education · Behavioral: Text and Video-based education
This group was used as control group and did not receive any intervention.
An educational program for training teachers and educators to better recognize mental health problems in adolescents and children
This group received the material that composed the web-based education environment without any kind of interactivity. This material was composed by some videos about children mental health and a support text.
Knowledge in Child and Adolescents Mental Health, beliefs and attitudes in Child Mental Health
Questions about knowledge, beliefs and attitudes in Child and Adolescents Mental Health applied before and after the intervention.
Time frame: baseline and 1 month (just after the intervention)
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