Promoting Mental Health of Teachers and Caregiver Using a Personalized mHealth Toolkit in Uganda

Phase

N/A

Condition

Depression

Treatment

mHealth Toolkit for Wellness & Empowering Lives of School Community (mWEL)

Clinical Study ID

NCT06087159

23-00600

Ages > 18
All Genders
Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial with 8 schools (4 intervention and 4 wait-list control schools) including 160 caregivers (80 teachers and 80 parents), with the aim of pilot testing the implementation process, feasibility, acceptability, usage patterns, and efficacy of the mHealth Toolkit for Wellness & Empowering Lives of School Community (mWEL) in Uganda. The mWEL-App is a preventive intervention tool for teachers and parents as a self-help support modality. Caregivers who need support in navigating the toolkit will be supported by P-CHWs. The investigators hypothesize that: 1) relative to the control, caregivers receiving the mWEL will have better efficacy outcomes (mental health literacy, and mental health outcomes); and 2) mWEL implementation will have high acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Teachers Inclusion Criteria:

Teaching in recruited schools.
At least 18 years old.

Parents Inclusion Criteria:

At least 18 years old.
Have a child aged 6-14 years.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

Evidence of psychopathology or cognitive impairment severe enough to preclude givingconsent, or completing the survey instruments or the focus group of the study.
Parents/Teachers/Caregivers who are not in one of our recruited primary school
Participants under the age of 18
Participant who does not speak English and Luganda will not be able to participate

Study Design