Teachers Leading the Frontlines (Tealeaf) - a Hybrid Effectiveness, Implement, and Context Trial

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL · Dec 16, 2021

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ClinConnect Summary

Expanding access to children's mental health care is a critically important global health challenge. Twenty percent of all children suffer from significant mental health concerns, most of whom will remain unrecognized, unsupported and affected throughout their lives. In India and low and middle income countries (LMICs), the burden of children's mental illness is particularly heavy due to large populations with high proportions of children and adolescents, high rates of adverse childhood events and poverty, limited resources to care for children and under-recognition of their mental health s...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• Schools:
• • Does not receive government aid (i.e., not subject to the rules and regulations of government or government-aided schools,
• • At least 3 full-time classroom teachers on staff,
• • Annual student fees $200/14,500 Indian rupee (INR) or less
• Teachers:
• • Employed at a participating school,
• • Have primary teaching responsibility in the primary grade level,
• • Are 18 years or older
• Children:
• • Enrolled in class I-IV,
• • Enrolled in the classroom of a participating teacher
• Exclusion Criteria:
• Schools:
• • Not located in the rural Darjeeling Himalayas (defined as the Mirik, Kurseong, and Darjeeling Sadar sub-divisions of the Darjeeling District and outside the statutory towns of Darjeeling, Kurseong, and Mirik, or within the Kalimpong District and outside of the Kalimpong Municipality)
• Teachers:
• • Have been convicted and/or are under investigation for any child-related misconduct or maltreatment.
• Children:
• • Do not have a parent or guardian who can provide informed consent