Study Results
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
2500 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2022-12-20
2023-09-23
Brief Summary
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The primary research question :
* Is the intervention effective in reducing mental health problems in children from pre-to-post test (Social Behavior Questionnaire: self and teacher reports) ?
The secondary research questions:
* Is the intervention effective in improving children's depression, positive and negative affect, nature connectedness. eco-anxiety and pro-environmental behaviors ?
* Is the intervention effective in improving teachers' well-being and affect ?
* Are the benefits to children sustained benefits at 3 months follow-up ?
* Is the primary question moderated by child's sex, child's disability status, the green space of neighbourhoods, the school's socio-economic position and teacher's experience wtih outdoor education ?
The intervention will take place outdoors in a green-space (2 hours per week for 12 weeks) and include a toolkit of 30 activities to foster well-being (e.g. mindfulness) and academic competencies (e.g. mathematics). The control group will engage in teaching-as-usual and will be provided with the activity toolkit after the trial has been conducted. Questionnaires will be administered to students before, immediately after and 3 months after the intervention in both the control and intervention groups. Teachers in both groups will complete questionnaires before and immediately after the intervention.
Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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Intervention group
The exposure to nature consists of teachers bringing their students to the highest quality green space within 1 km of a school which could be located on or off campus. The class will spend a total of 2 hours (i.e. 2 one hour visits or one 2 hours visits) per week for 12 weeks (transportation included). The teacher be provided with a toolkit of activities (mental health and academic competencies) that they will carry out with their students. Teachers will be provided with training and support.
Open Sky School program
Teachers lead students in 2 hours of outdoor activities per week for 12 weeks, as detailed in the arm description
Control
Six months after the inception of the trial, elementary schools (and their teachers) in the control condition will receive an unguided version of the intervention, supplemented by an online peer support group. As the children of the control group will by then be in high school with different teachers, we will provide them with a toolkit of 10 mental health activities that they can practice alone, in addition of support via video-conference, phone or email if they require help practicing the activities from a member of the research team. As in the intervention group, we will provide support by licensed psychologists to any children who report high levels of psychological distress and orient children to appropriate services if needed.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Open Sky School program
Teachers lead students in 2 hours of outdoor activities per week for 12 weeks, as detailed in the arm description
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Observatory for Children's Education and Health
UNKNOWN
McGill University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Marie-Claude Geoffroy, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
McGill
Locations
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Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Marie-Claude Geoffroy, PhD
Role: primary
References
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Loose T, Fuoco J, Malboeuf-Hurtubise C, Ayotte-Beaudet JP, Gauvin L, Chadi N, Ouellet-Morin I, Masse B, Cote SM, Geoffroy MC. A Nature-Based Intervention and Mental Health of Schoolchildren: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 4;7(11):e2444824. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.44824.
Loose T, Cote S, Malboeuf-Hurtubise C, Beaudet JA, Lessard G, Chadi N, Gauvin L, Morin IO, Geoffroy MC. Protocol for the Open Sky School: a two-arm clustered randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a nature-based intervention on mental health of elementary school children. BMC Public Health. 2023 Feb 3;23(1):236. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15033-y.
Other Identifiers
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468540
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id