Promoting mental health and well-being in schools: examining mindfulness, relaxation and strategies for safety and well-being in English primary and secondary schools—study protocol for a multi-school, cluster randomised controlled trial (INSPIRE)

Hayes, Daniel, Moore, Anna, Stapley, Emily, Humphrey, Neil, Mansfield, Rosie, Santos, Joao, Ashworth, Emma, Patalay, Praveetha, Bonin, Eva Maria ORCID: 0000-0001-9123-9217, Evans-Lacko, Sara ORCID: 0000-0003-4691-2630, Moltrecht, Bettina, Nisbet, Kirsty, Thornton, Emma, Lange, Aurelie, Stallard, Paul, Thompson, Abigail, Boehnke, Jan Rasmus and Deighton, Jessica (2023) Promoting mental health and well-being in schools: examining mindfulness, relaxation and strategies for safety and well-being in English primary and secondary schools—study protocol for a multi-school, cluster randomised controlled trial (INSPIRE). Trials, 24 (1). ISSN 1745-6215

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Abstract

There are increasing rates of internalising difficulties, particularly anxiety and depression, being reported in children and young people in England. School-based universal prevention programmes are thought to be one way of helping tackle such difficulties. This paper describes an update to a four-arm cluster randomised controlled trial (http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN16386254), investigating the effectiveness of three different interventions when compared to usual provision, in English primary and secondary pupils. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the trial was put on hold and subsequently prolonged. Data collection will now run until 2024. The key changes to the trial outlined here include clarification of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, an amended timeline reflecting changes to the recruitment period of the trial due to the COVID-19 pandemic and clarification of the data that will be included in the statistical analysis, since the second wave of the trial was disrupted due to COVID-19. Trial registration ISRCTN Registry ISRCTN16386254. Registered on 30 August 2018.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2023, The Author(s).
Divisions:	Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
Subjects:	R Medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services L Education
Date Deposited:	14 Apr 2023 14:45
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2024 17:03
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/118640

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