Trial reportEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2015
A randomised controlled trial of a web-based educational program in child mental health for schoolteachers.
Trial report in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness of mental health interventions involving non-specialists and digital technology in low-and middle-income countries - a systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Core components of mental health stigma reduction interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Stigma Related to Mental Illnesses in Educational Institutes: a Systematic Review.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Mental Health Literacy Training for School Teachers: A Systematic Review Spanning 2012-2024.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2026Review
- Empowering School Staff to Support Pupil Mental Health Through a Brief, Interactive Web-Based Training Program: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Application of digital child mental health training to improve capacity in majority world countries: Professional perspectives from Turkey and Pakistan.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2022Article
- Mental Health and Wellbeing at Schools: Health Promotion in Primary Schools with the Use of Digital Methods.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Internet-Based Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Disorders in Latin America: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Use of Technology to Promote Child Behavioral Health in the Context of Pediatric Care: A Scoping Review and Applications to Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Using technology to scale-up training and supervision of community health workers in the psychosocial management of perinatal depression: a non-inferiority, randomized controlled trial.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2019Article
- Digital technology for treating and preventing mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries: a narrative review of the literature.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2017Review
- Commonalities and specificities between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism-spectrum disorders: can epidemiology contribute?European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2015Article
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Abstract
Children affected by mental disorders are largely unrecognised and untreated across the world. Community resources, including the school system and teachers, are important elements in actions directed to promoting child mental health and preventing and treating mental disorders, especially in low- and middle-income countries. We developed a web-based program to educate primary school teachers on mental disorders in childhood and conducted a cluster-randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of the web-based program intervention in comparison with the same program based on text and video materials only and to a waiting-list control group. All nine schools of a single city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, were randomised to the three groups, and teachers completed the educational programs during 3 weeks. Data were analysed according to complete cases and intention-to-treat approaches. In terms of gains of knowledge about mental disorders, the web-based program intervention was superior to the intervention with text and video materials, and to the waiting-list control group. In terms of beliefs and attitudes about mental disorders, the web-based program intervention group presented less stigmatised concepts than the text and video group and more non-stigmatised concepts than the waiting-list group. No differences were detected in terms of teachers' attitudes. This study demonstrated initial data on the effectiveness of a web-based program in educating schoolteachers on child mental disorders. Future studies are necessary to replicate and extend the findings.
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