Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids
Background: There is a growing prevalence of mental health disorders among youth. Helping youth develop skills that promote and support mental well-being is an important strategy for addressing this public health concern. Building Resilience for Healthy Kids (Healthy Kids) is a school-based program...
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| author | Joey A. Lee Erin Heberlein Emily Pyle Thomas Caughlan Darvi Rahaman Margaret Sabin Jill L. Kaar |
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| description | Background: There is a growing prevalence of mental health disorders among youth. Helping youth develop skills that promote and support mental well-being is an important strategy for addressing this public health concern. Building Resilience for Healthy Kids (Healthy Kids) is a school-based program designed to improve resiliency in youth aged 9–13 years old using an innovative health coaching framework. Methods: Healthy Kids is a multi-phased intervention that aims to improve youth resilience using a 6-week, 1:1 health coaching program. The program develops youth resilience and was derived from models for developing youth resilience: Positive Relationships, Coping, Skill Development, Healthy Lifestyle, Sense of Culture, and Connectedness. Effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated using a single-group, pragmatic trial design with pretest-posttest and follow-up assessments up to 12 months. Process measures will evaluate youth's acceptance and satisfaction of the program and attendance rates. Effectiveness will be evaluated by examining changes in resilience and mental health indicators from pre-to-post program and tracking sustainment of changes in mental health indicators over time. Discussion: Given the pragmatic nature of the study design to work with generally healthy populations of students, we expect small, but sustainable, improvements in youth resilience to be achieved through the intervention. Further, this study will provide insight into the potential effectiveness of using health coaching as a strategy to support and promote youth mental well-being in school settings. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04202913. Registered December 18, 2019. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab705b77b8a843ef9b82a44f66c0f40d2022-12-21T18:18:15ZengElsevierContemporary Clinical Trials Communications2451-86542021-03-0121100721Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy KidsJoey A. Lee0Erin Heberlein1Emily Pyle2Thomas Caughlan3Darvi Rahaman4Margaret Sabin5Jill L. Kaar6University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Department of Health Sciences, Colorado Springs, CO, USAChildren's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USAChildren's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USAChildren's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USAChildren's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Aurora, CO, USAChildren's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USAUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Aurora, CO, USA; Corresponding author. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13123 East 16th Avenue, B265, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.Background: There is a growing prevalence of mental health disorders among youth. Helping youth develop skills that promote and support mental well-being is an important strategy for addressing this public health concern. Building Resilience for Healthy Kids (Healthy Kids) is a school-based program designed to improve resiliency in youth aged 9–13 years old using an innovative health coaching framework. Methods: Healthy Kids is a multi-phased intervention that aims to improve youth resilience using a 6-week, 1:1 health coaching program. The program develops youth resilience and was derived from models for developing youth resilience: Positive Relationships, Coping, Skill Development, Healthy Lifestyle, Sense of Culture, and Connectedness. Effectiveness of the intervention will be evaluated using a single-group, pragmatic trial design with pretest-posttest and follow-up assessments up to 12 months. Process measures will evaluate youth's acceptance and satisfaction of the program and attendance rates. Effectiveness will be evaluated by examining changes in resilience and mental health indicators from pre-to-post program and tracking sustainment of changes in mental health indicators over time. Discussion: Given the pragmatic nature of the study design to work with generally healthy populations of students, we expect small, but sustainable, improvements in youth resilience to be achieved through the intervention. Further, this study will provide insight into the potential effectiveness of using health coaching as a strategy to support and promote youth mental well-being in school settings. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04202913. Registered December 18, 2019.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451865421000235Health coachMental healthResilienceSchool wellnessSocial-emotional learning |
| spellingShingle | Joey A. Lee Erin Heberlein Emily Pyle Thomas Caughlan Darvi Rahaman Margaret Sabin Jill L. Kaar Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications Health coach Mental health Resilience School wellness Social-emotional learning |
| title | Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids |
| title_full | Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids |
| title_fullStr | Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids |
| title_full_unstemmed | Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids |
| title_short | Study protocol for a school-based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth: Building Resilience for Healthy Kids |
| title_sort | study protocol for a school based single group pragmatic trial to promote resilience in youth building resilience for healthy kids |
| topic | Health coach Mental health Resilience School wellness Social-emotional learning |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451865421000235 |
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