R Glenn Weaver, Collin A Webster, Michael W Beets, Keith Brazendale, Lauren Schisler, Mazen Aziz
An Intervention to Increase Students' Physical Activity: A 2-Year Pilot Study
American journal of preventive medicine
schools major role promoting childrens physical psychological health wellbeing mental health literacy key stakeholders especially teachers critical achieving goal teachers knowledge beliefs psychological problems influence way deal students mental health issues study preliminary investigation evaluating effectiveness feasibility school mental health programme smhp developed world health organizations eastern mediterranean regional office whoemro improving mental health literacy selfefficacy among school teachers innercity area urban lahore teachers randomly assigned 3 days standardized whoemro school mental health manual based intervention n 118 wait list delayed intervention control group n 113 teachers assessed pre post training 3 months follow using measures mental health literacy primary outcome selfefficacy school heads completed school psychosocial profile students reported socioemotional skills psychological problems using strengths difficulties questionnaire baseline 3 months post intervention compared waitlist group teachers intervention group presented significant increase mental health literacy f2181 892 p 0001 well better teachers selfefficacy classroom management student engagement f2181 1645 p 0000 f2181 465 p 0011 respectively increase confidence helping students mental health problems also noted intervention arm f2181 1596 p 0000 improvement overall school environment also found statistical difference emotional behavioural difficulties students noticed 3 months study one first preliminary investigation whoemro school mental health intervention pakistan study showed intervention led significant improvement mental health literacy selfefficacy among teachers largely sustained time despite major limitation lack clustering likely contamination affecting follow outcomes study showed promising results context mental health promotion prevention early intervention schools lahore pakistan larger cluster randomised trial justified given level participant engagement acceptability schools clinicaltrialsgov registry nct02937714 registered 13th october 2016 httpsregister gov