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Trial reportEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2017

Use, acceptability and impact of booklets designed to support mental health self-management and help seeking in schools: results of a large randomised controlled trial in England.

Helen Sharpe, Praveetha Patalay, Panos Vostanis, Jay Belsky, Neil Humphrey, Miranda Wolpert

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Hybrid Concept Analysis of Self-Management Support: School Nurses Supporting Students with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Helen SharpeDepartment of Clinical Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK. helen.sharpe@ed.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6980-1699
Praveetha PatalayEvidence Based Practice Unit, University College London and the Anna Freud Centre, London, UK.
Panos VostanisDepartment of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Jay BelskyDepartment of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA.
Neil HumphreyManchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Miranda WolpertEvidence Based Practice Unit, University College London and the Anna Freud Centre, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental health booklets may provide a low-cost means of promoting mental health self-management and help seeking in schools. The aim of the study was to assess the (a) use, (b) acceptability and (c) impact of booklets for students in primary (10-11 years) and secondary school (12-13 years) alone and in conjunction with funding for targeted mental health support. This was a 2 × 2 factorial cluster randomized controlled trial, in which 846 schools in England were randomly allocated to receive/not receive: (1) booklets for students containing information on mental health self-management and help seeking, and (2) funding for mental health support as part of a national mental health initiative. 14,690 students (8139 primary, 6551 secondary) provided self-report on mental health, quality of life (baseline and 1 year follow-up) and help seeking (follow-up). (a) Approximately, 40 % primary school students and 20 % secondary school students reported seeing the booklets. (b) Of these, 87 % of primary school students reported that the booklet was 'very helpful' or 'quite helpful', compared with 73 % in secondary school. (c) There was no detectable impact of booklets on mental health, quality of life or help seeking, either alone or in conjunction with additional funding through the national mental health initiative. Lack of discernable impact of booklets underscores the need for caution in adopting such an approach. However, it is feasible that the impact was obscured by low uptake or that booklets may be more effective when used in a targeted way.

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Health EducationHelp-Seeking BehaviorMental HealthPamphletsPatient Acceptance of Health CareSelf CareAdolescentChildCluster AnalysisEnglandFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth PromotionHumansMaleProcess Assessment, Health CareAdolescentsHelp seekingMental health promotionSchoolsSelf-management

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PMID27444633
PMCPMC5323475

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