Mental Health LiteracyNCT07913867
School-Based Mental Health Education on Mental Health Literacy Among Adolescents
A study testing Mental Health Education Session and Printed Mental Health Leaflet in people with Mental Health Literacy and Health Literacy, run by Tanjungpura University at 1 site in Indonesia.
Trial summary
The goal of this clinical trial was to learn whether a single interactive mental health education session improves mental health literacy among senior high school students in a remote area on the Indonesia-Malaysia land border (Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia). Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any ageHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Mental Health Literacy, Health Literacy, Mental Health
- What is being tested?
- Mental Health Education Session and Printed Mental Health Leaflet
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 82 participants
- Where
- 1 siteIndonesia
- Study dates
- 26 Aug 2026to 26 Aug 2026
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Any age
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Actively enrolled in grade 10 or grade 11 at the study school
- Agreed to participate, with student assent and school permission
- Had not previously attended intensive mental health literacy training
Who cannot join
- Receiving care for an acute psychiatric crisis
- Missed both the pretest and the session
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Effect of a Brief School-Based Mental Health Education Session on Mental Health Literacy Among Adolescents in an Indonesia-Malaysia Border Area: A Quasi-Experimental Study
The goal of this clinical trial was to learn whether a single interactive mental health education session improves mental health literacy among senior high school students in a remote area on the Indonesia-Malaysia land border (Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia). The main question was whether students who attended the session would score higher on the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire immediately afterwards than students who received a printed leaflet, after accounting for their scores before the activity.
Researchers compared intact classes that attended the session with classes that received a printed mental health leaflet. Participants completed the questionnaire before the activity, then either attended one face-to-face session of about 60 minutes or received the leaflet, and completed the same questionnaire again immediately afterwards on the same day. This record was registered after data collection had been completed.
Read the detailed description
Design. Non-randomized controlled trial with a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design, reported according to the TREND statement. Individual randomization was not feasible because students learn in fixed classes, so intact grade 10 and grade 11 classes at one public senior high school in Sajingan Besar District were assigned by the school to the intervention or control condition.
Intervention. A face-to-face session titled "Kenali Jiwamu, Jaga Dirimu, Bantu Temanmu" (Know your mind, look after yourself, help your friend) was delivered in one meeting of about 60 minutes by nurse researchers together with the school's guidance and counselling teacher, using a 19-slide presentation in Indonesian. Its four parts covered understanding mental health, correcting misconceptions about causes, recovery, long-term treatment and who can be affected, risk and protective factors, and seeking and giving help. Each misconception was stated neutrally and then explained, students responded to questions to the class within agreed ground rules, and each student chose one protective habit to practise for a week.
Comparator. Control classes received a printed leaflet on mental health during the same period and were offered the full session after data collection ended.
Measures. Mental health literacy was measured with an Indonesian version of the 20-item Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (16 knowledge items scored against a key and 4 awareness items on international mental health awareness days; total score 0 to 20). Help-seeking intentions toward ten sources (1 to 7, General Help-Seeking Questionnaire format) and student and family characteristics were recorded at baseline only. All measures were collected through online forms.
Sample size and analysis. The study plan targeted at least 40 students per group plus 10% for attrition. The primary analysis was ANCOVA of the posttest total score with group as the factor and the pretest total score as the covariate. Sensitivity analyses comprised ANCOVA restricted to grade 10 students, ANCOVA adjusted for grade and family history of psychological disorder, Mann-Whitney U tests on change scores and normalized gain, and ANCOVA on all valid pairs, and item-level change was explored with exact McNemar tests.
Ethics. The school granted permission for the study, and the ethics committee approved a procedure in which students gave assent through a statement at the start of the online form.
Registration timing and changes from the funding proposal. This trial was registered retrospectively, after data collection on 26 August 2026 had been completed. The original funding proposal planned four 90-minute sessions integrating West Kalimantan local wisdom, a control group at a second school, a modified Mental Health Literacy Scale, and stigma as an additional outcome. The study as conducted used a single session of core mental health literacy content, intervention and control classes within one school, and the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire, and stigma was not measured.
- Conditions
- Mental Health Literacy, Health Literacy, Mental Health
- Being tested
- Mental Health Education Session, Printed Mental Health Leaflet
- Keywords
- Adolescents, School Health, Health Education, Help-Seeking, School Nursing, Border Area, Indonesia
- Medical subject headings
- Psychological Well-Being, Health Education
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Mental Health Education SessionBehavioural
Also called Kenali Jiwamu, Jaga Dirimu, Bantu Temanmu
One face-to-face session of about 60 minutes delivered by nurse researchers with the school's guidance and counselling teacher, using a 19-slide presentation in Indonesian. Four parts covered understanding mental health, correcting common misconceptions, risk and protective factors, and seeking and giving help, using questions to the class, agreed ground rules, a neutral statement and explanation of each misconception, and a one-week protective habit challenge.
Printed Mental Health LeafletBehavioural
A printed leaflet with general information on mental health, given to students in the control classes during the same period as the session, without facilitated discussion.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Education Session | Experimental | Intact classes that attended one face-to-face interactive mental health education session of about 60 minutes. Receives: Behavioral: Mental Health Education Session |
| Printed Leaflet | Active comparator | Intact classes that received a printed mental health leaflet during the same period and were offered the session after data collection ended. Receives: Behavioral: Printed Mental Health Leaflet |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Mental Health Literacy Total Score
Total score of the Indonesian version of the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (20 items; 16 knowledge items scored 1 when the response matches the key and 4 awareness items scored 1 for yes; other responses, including don't know, scored 0). Range 0 to 20; higher scores indicate better mental health literacy. Posttest scores were compared between groups adjusting for pretest scores.
Measured: Baseline (Day 1, pre-intervention) and Day 1, within 30 minutes post-intervention
Secondary outcomes (2)
Mental Health Knowledge Subscale Score
Sum of knowledge items 1 to 16 of the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire. Range 0 to 16; higher scores indicate better knowledge.
Measured: Baseline (Day 1, pre-intervention) and Day 1, within 30 minutes post-intervention
Mental Health Promotion Awareness Subscale Score
Sum of awareness items 17 to 20 of the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire, asking whether the student has heard of World Mental Health Day, the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, World Suicide Prevention Day and World Sleep Day. Range 0 to 4; higher scores indicate greater awareness.
Measured: Baseline (Day 1, pre-intervention) and Day 1, within 30 minutes post-intervention
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted3 Nov 2026
- Study start26 Aug 2026
- Primary completion26 Aug 2026
- Study completion26 Aug 2026
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Mental Health LiteracyStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- Non-randomized parallel-group design with a pretest and an immediate posttest. Intact classes in one school were assigned by the school to the intervention or control condition.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 82 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Tanjungpura University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, I Made Moh. Yanuar Saifudin, Tanjungpura University
- Investigators
- Faisal Kholid Fahdi, M.Kep., M.Pd., Principal investigator, Tanjungpura University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07913867
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 6865/UN22.9/PT.01.04/2026
- Status last verified
- Oct 2026
- First submitted
- 27 Oct 2026
- Last updated
- 3 Nov 2026
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: De-identified individual participant data underlying the published results, together with the analysis syntax, will be available from the principal investigator on reasonable request.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 3 Nov 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Effect of a Brief School-Based Mental Health Education Session on Mental Health Literacy Among Adolescents in an Indonesia-Malaysia Border Area: A Quasi-Experimental Study
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT07913867
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 6865/UN22.9/PT.01.04/2026
- Conditions
- Mental Health Literacy, Health Literacy, Mental Health
- Keywords
- Adolescents, School Health, Health Education, Help-Seeking, School Nursing, Border Area, Indonesia
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 82 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Tanjungpura UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 26 Aug 2026 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 26 Aug 2026 (actual)
- Study completion
- 26 Aug 2026 (actual)
- First posted
- 3 Nov 2026 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The goal of this clinical trial was to learn whether a single interactive mental health education session improves mental health literacy among senior high school students in a remote area on the Indonesia-Malaysia land border (Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia). The main question was whether students who attended the session would score higher on the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire immediately afterwards than students who received a printed leaflet, after accounting for their scores before the activity.
Researchers compared intact classes that attended the session with classes that received a printed mental health leaflet. Participants completed the questionnaire before the activity, then either attended one face-to-face session of about 60 minutes or received the leaflet, and completed the same questionnaire again immediately afterwards on the same day. This record was registered after data collection had been completed.
Detailed description
Design. Non-randomized controlled trial with a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design, reported according to the TREND statement. Individual randomization was not feasible because students learn in fixed classes, so intact grade 10 and grade 11 classes at one public senior high school in Sajingan Besar District were assigned by the school to the intervention or control condition.
Intervention. A face-to-face session titled "Kenali Jiwamu, Jaga Dirimu, Bantu Temanmu" (Know your mind, look after yourself, help your friend) was delivered in one meeting of about 60 minutes by nurse researchers together with the school's guidance and counselling teacher, using a 19-slide presentation in Indonesian. Its four parts covered understanding mental health, correcting misconceptions about causes, recovery, long-term treatment and who can be affected, risk and protective factors, and seeking and giving help. Each misconception was stated neutrally and then explained, students responded to questions to the class within agreed ground rules, and each student chose one protective habit to practise for a week.
Comparator. Control classes received a printed leaflet on mental health during the same period and were offered the full session after data collection ended.
Measures. Mental health literacy was measured with an Indonesian version of the 20-item Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (16 knowledge items scored against a key and 4 awareness items on international mental health awareness days; total score 0 to 20). Help-seeking intentions toward ten sources (1 to 7, General Help-Seeking Questionnaire format) and student and family characteristics were recorded at baseline only. All measures were collected through online forms.
Sample size and analysis. The study plan targeted at least 40 students per group plus 10% for attrition. The primary analysis was ANCOVA of the posttest total score with group as the factor and the pretest total score as the covariate. Sensitivity analyses comprised ANCOVA restricted to grade 10 students, ANCOVA adjusted for grade and family history of psychological disorder, Mann-Whitney U tests on change scores and normalized gain, and ANCOVA on all valid pairs, and item-level change was explored with exact McNemar tests.
Ethics. The school granted permission for the study, and the ethics committee approved a procedure in which students gave assent through a statement at the start of the online form.
Registration timing and changes from the funding proposal. This trial was registered retrospectively, after data collection on 26 August 2026 had been completed. The original funding proposal planned four 90-minute sessions integrating West Kalimantan local wisdom, a control group at a second school, a modified Mental Health Literacy Scale, and stigma as an additional outcome. The study as conducted used a single session of core mental health literacy content, intervention and control classes within one school, and the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire, and stigma was not measured.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Non-randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Non-randomized parallel-group design with a pretest and an immediate posttest. Intact classes in one school were assigned by the school to the intervention or control condition.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Education Session | Experimental | Behavioral: Mental Health Education SessionIntact classes that attended one face-to-face interactive mental health education session of about 60 minutes. |
| Printed Leaflet | Active comparator | Behavioral: Printed Mental Health LeafletIntact classes that received a printed mental health leaflet during the same period and were offered the session after data collection ended. |
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Actively enrolled in grade 10 or grade 11 at the study school
- Agreed to participate, with student assent and school permission
- Had not previously attended intensive mental health literacy training
Key exclusion criteria (2 listed)
- Receiving care for an acute psychiatric crisis
- Missed both the pretest and the session
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Education SessionAlso: Kenali Jiwamu, Jaga Dirimu, Bantu TemanmuOne face-to-face session of about 60 minutes delivered by nurse researchers with the school's guidance and counselling teacher, using a 19-slide presentation in Indonesian. Four parts covered understanding mental health, correcting common misconceptions, risk and protective factors, and seeking and giving help, using questions to the class, agreed ground rules, a neutral statement and explanation of each misconception, and a one-week protective habit challenge. | Behavioural | Mental Health Education Session |
| Printed Mental Health LeafletA printed leaflet with general information on mental health, given to students in the control classes during the same period as the session, without facilitated discussion. | Behavioural | Printed Leaflet |
Primary outcome
Mental Health Literacy Total Score
Time frame: Baseline (Day 1, pre-intervention) and Day 1, within 30 minutes post-intervention
Total score of the Indonesian version of the Mental Health Knowledge Questionnaire (20 items; 16 knowledge items scored 1 when the response matches the key and 4 awareness items scored 1 for yes; other responses, including don't know, scored 0). Range 0 to 20; higher scores indicate better mental health literacy. Posttest scores were compared between groups adjusting for pretest scores.
2 secondary outcomes
Mental Health Knowledge Subscale Score
Time frame: Baseline (Day 1, pre-intervention) and Day 1, within 30 minutes post-intervention
Mental Health Promotion Awareness Subscale Score
Time frame: Baseline (Day 1, pre-intervention) and Day 1, within 30 minutes post-intervention
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 3 Nov 2026.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. De-identified individual participant data underlying the published results, together with the analysis syntax, will be available from the principal investigator on reasonable request.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Faisal Kholid Fahdi, M.Kep., M.Pd. principal investigator
Tanjungpura University
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Mental Health Education Session and Printed Mental Health Leaflet in people with Mental Health Literacy and Health Literacy, run by Tanjungpura University at 1 site in Indonesia.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 3 Nov 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Indonesia. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Mental Health Literacy Total Score (time frame: Baseline (Day 1, pre-intervention) and Day 1, within 30 minutes post-intervention). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 3 Nov 2026.