Increasing parent help-seeking for child mental health: A study protocol for the growing minds check-in, an online universal screening tool

IF 2 3区医学 Q3 MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL

Contemporary clinical trials Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.cct.2024.107801

Talia Carl , Lucy A. Tully , Rebecca K. McLean , Mark R. Dadds , David J. Hawes , Cathrine Mihalopoulos , Mary Lou Chatterton , Frank Oberklaid , Allison M. Waters , Dianne Shanley , Marie B.H. Yap , Warren G. Cann , Thomas Carlick , Jaimie C. Northam

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Abstract

Background

Early identification and intervention for mental health (MH) problems in childhood offers lifelong benefits. Many children with MH problems do not receive appropriate help. To address this need, an online universal MH screening tool, the Growing Minds Check-In for parents/caregivers (GMCI-P), was developed to provide feedback to parents on their children's MH, identify children at risk of MH problems, and link parents to evidence-based online programs/information, with the goal of facilitating parent help-seeking, and ultimately reducing the prevalence of child MH problems.

Methods/design

A randomised controlled trial (RCT) with 440 parents/caregivers will be conducted to 1) examine the efficacy of GMCI-P for increasing parent help-seeking; 2) explore acceptability; and 3) cost-effectiveness. Participants will be Australian parents/caregivers with a child aged from birth to 17 years, 6 months, who will be randomly allocated to GMCI-P (intervention) or waitlist control (WLC) group, and complete baseline measures. The intervention group will complete the GMCI-P immediately, the post-GMCI-P intervention questions, a three-month and six-month follow-up. The WLC group will receive access to GMCI-P after their three-month follow-up but will not be followed up further. The primary outcome is parent help-seeking behaviour for child MH, and secondary outcomes include child MH, parenting, parent wellbeing, acceptability, cost-effectiveness, and unintended negative effects.

Discussion

The results from this study will provide efficacy, acceptability and cost-effectiveness data on a universal online, parent-report child MH Check-In. These results can be used to inform public policy on universal screening for child MH.

Trial registration: ACTRN12624000098538

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增加父母对儿童心理健康的帮助：一项关于成长中的心理检查的研究协议，一种在线普遍筛查工具。

背景：早期识别和干预儿童心理健康（MH）问题提供终身受益。许多有MH问题的儿童没有得到适当的帮助。为了满足这一需求，开发了一种在线通用的MH筛查工具，即家长/照料者成长心理检查（GMCI-P），向家长提供关于其子女MH的反馈，识别有MH问题风险的儿童，并将家长与基于证据的在线项目/信息联系起来，目的是促进家长寻求帮助，并最终减少儿童MH问题的发生率。方法/设计：对440名家长/照顾者进行随机对照试验（RCT），以1)检验GMCI-P对增加家长求助的效果；2)探索可接受性；3)成本效益。参与者将是澳大利亚的父母/照顾者，他们的孩子年龄从出生到17 岁，6 个月，他们将被随机分配到GMCI-P（干预）组或等候名单对照组（WLC）组，并完成基线测量。干预组将立即完成GMCI-P， GMCI-P后的干预问题，三个月和六个月的随访。WLC组将在三个月的随访后获得GMCI-P，但不会进一步随访。主要结果是父母为儿童MH寻求帮助的行为，次要结果包括儿童MH、养育、父母福祉、可接受性、成本效益和意想不到的负面影响。讨论：本研究的结果将提供一个普遍的在线，家长报告儿童MH登记的有效性，可接受性和成本效益数据。这些结果可用于为儿童mh普遍筛查的公共政策提供信息。试验注册：ACTRN12624000098538。

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Contemporary clinical trials 医学-药学

CiteScore

3.70

自引率

4.50%

发文量

281

审稿时长

44 days

期刊介绍： Contemporary Clinical Trials is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes manuscripts pertaining to all aspects of clinical trials, including, but not limited to, design, conduct, analysis, regulation and ethics. Manuscripts submitted should appeal to a readership drawn from disciplines including medicine, biostatistics, epidemiology, computer science, management science, behavioural science, pharmaceutical science, and bioethics. Full-length papers and short communications not exceeding 1,500 words, as well as systemic reviews of clinical trials and methodologies will be published. Perspectives/commentaries on current issues and the impact of clinical trials on the practice of medicine and health policy are also welcome.