Strengthening Health and Insight in New Educators

Официальное название

Healthy Minds for Pre-Service Teachers

Обзор

Teachers are at notable risk for depression and anxiety. The present study tests an app-based mindfulness intervention for teachers in their final year of training with the goal of preventing the deterioration of their mental health during the transition into the classroom. The project will strengthen the research environment at the University of Alabama and will involve undergraduate research assistants in each step of the research process.

Подробное описание

Mental health concerns in teachers have escalated since the onset of the pandemic, and the deterioration of mental health can begin as early as the teacher training period. Accessible and scalable programs that prepare teachers for the stress of the profession are urgently needed to prevent the deterioration of mental health and its attendant consequences. The goal of this longitudinal project is to test the feasibility and acceptability, utility, and candidate mechanisms of an accessible, mobile health, mindfulness-based intervention, the Healthy Minds Program (HMP), to equip teachers in training ("pre-service teachers"; i.e., university students majoring in education) with skills necessary to maintain their mental health as they transition into the classroom. The project addresses three specific aims. Aim 1: a) Assess the feasibility and acceptability of the HMP for pre-service teachers and b) identify barriers and facilitators to program acceptability. Aim 2: Determine the utility of the HMP for preventing depression and anxiety (main outcomes) and turnover intentions (secondary outcome). Aim 3: Examine HMP effects on candidate mechanisms, and the effect of mechanisms on outcomes. The results of this project will provide critical insight into the potential for the HMP to scale up for widespread use in pre-service teacher training programs. Importantly, the project will provide a unique opportunity for undergraduate research at the University of Alabama, and will strengthen the research environment by involving undergraduate research assistants in each step of the research process.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Healthy Minds Program
  Participants in this arm engage with the Healthy Minds Program app/

Первичные конечные точки

• Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Depression - Short Form 8b [Срок оценки: Participants will report on depression at baseline, post-intervention (3 months after baseline), 3-month follow-up , and 12-month follow-up.]
• Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Anxiety - Short Form 7a [Срок оценки: Participants will report on anxiety at baseline, post-intervention (3 months after baseline), 3-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up.]

Вторичные конечные точки (1)

• Turnover Intentions [Срок оценки: Participants will report turnover intentions at 3-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up.]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• Students in Block 3 will be invited to participate in the study.

Критерии исключения

• Students who are not in Block 3 will be excluded. Participants experiencing suicidal ideations at baseline and deemed via the clinical risk assessment procedure to be at moderate or high risk of suicide will be excluded from the study after baseline, and prior to randomization.

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Да

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Открытое

Основная цель

Профилактика

Центры проведения

США · 1 центр

• University of Alabama — Tuscaloosa

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT06745934 · 24-01-7242 · R15MH134225

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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