CONSCIOUS: A Pilot Trial of a Media Orientation Intervention to Encourage Men's Help Seeking for Mental Health Difficulties
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Psychosocial media campaign, Intervention as usual.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Anxiety, Mental Health, Suicide Awareness, Awareness Training. Basic parameters: from 18 years · Male.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Media Orientation to Prevent Suicidal Ideation and Self Harm and Improve Help Seeking Behaviour: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial
Overview
Mental health difficulties among males are an issue of public health concern. Men are also at higher risk of suicidal ideation and self-harm and are poor at help-seeking due to factors including stigma, cultural norms and gendered expectations of masculinity. Yet, in Nigeria, a significant gap remains in media orientation intervention to create awareness on symptoms of mental health difficulties and support channels to encourage help-seeking. In essence, the current study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of a novel intervention titled, psyChosOcial media awareNesS for SuiCIde symptoms, including other mental health PrOblems and help seeking mediUmS (CONSCIOUS) for addressing awareness of mental health difficulties in comparison to the waitlist control group for the purposes of improving men's help seeking, social support and reducing anxiety in Nigeria.
Interventions
- Behavioral Psychosocial media campaign
The CONSCIOUS is 3 minutes recorded media message. The intervention is designed to promote awareness on how to prevent suicidal ideation and self-harm, stigma reduction and avenues or mediums for help-seeking. The core message is composed of three key ambits: 1) emphasizing what is meant by suicidal ideation and self-harm (ii) the need to seek help and stop societal stigmatising behaviour (iii) Avenues for help seeking and improved mental health and wellbeing. - Other Intervention as usual
Current available interventions to foster help seeking including leaflets, community health centre provision of information etc. This group will be later offered the CONSCIOUS intervention after completion of baseline and end of intervention assessment.
Primary outcome measures
- Service Satisfaction Scale [Time frame: Immediately after the end of the intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (10)
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- Attitude Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- General Help Seeking Questionnaire (GHSQ) [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- Self Stigma and Help Seeking (SSHS) Scale [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- Stigma of Suicide Scale (SOSS) [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- European Quality of Life Scale EQ-5D-5L [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- Oslo Social Support Scale (OSSS-3) [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) [Time frame: Baseline (day 1) and at the end of intervention (day 2)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- male, aged 18 years or above, able to provide full informed consent to aid their participation, able to speak the English language which is Nigeria language. able to take part in the intervention and are available for the intervention assessment at baseline and end of intervention.
Exclusion criteria
- less than 18 years old, unable to provide informed consent, undergoing severe mental health treatment and unable to speak the English language. Participants were also excluded if they are high risk social ideation or self-harm patients.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Publications
- Pirkis J, Rossetto A, Nicholas A, Ftanou M, Robinson J, Reavley N. Suicide Prevention Media Campaigns: A Systematic Literature Review. Health Commun. 2019 Apr;34(4):402-414. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2017.1405484. Epub 2017 Nov 30. PMID 29190128
- Ftanou M, Cox G, Nicholas A, Spittal MJ, Machlin A, Robinson J, Pirkis J. Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements (PSAs): Examples from Around the World. Health Commun. 2017 Apr;32(4):493-501. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1140269. Epub 2016 Jun 16. PMID 27308843
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07627451 · 0000-0003-0516-0313h · CONSCIOUS