About this trial
:The study is designed to introduce a curriculum "One All", organised around the sport, Ultimate Frisbee, as a way to improve mental health resilience. This research will examine the feasibility and effectiveness of the intervention in two locations, Gudalur in Tamil Nadu and BR Hills in Karnataka.
Objectives:
The primary objective is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of "One All" intervention among young people, evaluate its key component of facilitators training programme and assess its effectiveness in improving the mental health and resilience, in two tribal communities in South India.
Methods:
The effectiveness of the intervention (One All) will be evaluated at three time points at 12 months and 18 months. Phase i and 2 will be training of facilitators and focussed group discussion with elders and other significant others.
Phase 3 Includes; A quantitative assessment of the intended outcomes of curriculum at the end of the intervention. This will be a pre-post study (n=119) each for boys and girls).The outcomes will be assessed at 12 months and 18 months of intervention.
The sports based psychosocial curriculum "OneAll' is assessed as feasible and effective amongst the tribal young people in south India.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
All participants who are tribals and are recruited for One-all intervention
Disqualifiers
All participants who are recruited for One-all intervention, but, are nottribals.
Trial design
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
"One All" Intervention
BehavioralOne-all is a Three-year curriculum targeted at specific outcomes for each yearfacilitated by young people from the community. The facilitators are inducted througha rigorous facilitators programme of three to five months' length. The facilitators areencouraged to adapt the program to their needs and provide the programme incustomized forms appropriate and as required for the communities. The interventionhas thus far been provided to the fishermen communities in Chennai and anecdotalfield evidence suggest, gains in the intended goals. After these experiences theintervention was being tried amongst the tribal adolescents in Gudalur. One-alltargets to provide the undermentioned skills to achieve the mentioned Goals andSkills: * self-management • understanding feelings * social awareness • conflict resolution * relationship skills • empathy building * self-awareness Skills •nurturing interpersonal relationships * identity building • awareness about gender stereotypes
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Resilience
To evaluate effectiveness for increasing primary outcome of changed resilience using the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD- RISC) using the 10-question scale to measure resilience.The full range of CD-RISC is 0 to 100.
Resilience meaured by the Child Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) - a 28 item questionnaires
To evaluate effectiveness for increasing primary outcome of changed resilience using the Child Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) - a 28 item questionnaires.The range of scoring is 28 to 140.
Secondary outcomes
Mental Health as measured by GHQ12
The first secondary outcome is change in Mental health using the GHQ12, a validated measure of psychological well-being. The minimum score is 12 and maximum 36.
Mental Health
The second secondary outcome is change in Mental health using the Schwarzer's General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), a 10-item validated measure for self-efficacy. The range is 0 to 10.
Sponsors and contacts
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University of Pittsburgh
Lead sponsor
Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health
Collaborator
Association for Health Welfare in the Nilgiris
Collaborator