TY - JOUR
T1 - The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training programme in schools compared with normal school provision (MYRIAD)
T2 - Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
AU - the MYRIAD team
AU - Kuyken, Willem
AU - Nuthall, Elizabeth
AU - Byford, Sarah
AU - Crane, Catherine
AU - Dalgleish, Tim
AU - Ford, Tamsin
AU - Greenberg, Mark T.
AU - Ukoumunne, Obioha C.
AU - Viner, Russell M.
AU - Williams, J. Mark G.
AU - Brett, Daniel
AU - Lord, Liz
AU - Palmer, Lucy
AU - Sonley, Anna
AU - Taylor, Laura
AU - Raja, Anam
AU - Casey, Triona
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Author(s).
PY - 2017/4/26
Y1 - 2017/4/26
N2 - Background: Mindfulness-based approaches for adults are effective at enhancing mental health, but few controlled trials have evaluated their effectiveness or cost-effectiveness for young people. The primary aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training (MT) programme to enhance mental health, wellbeing and social-emotional behavioural functioning in adolescence. Methods/design: To address this aim, the design will be a superiority, cluster randomised controlled, parallel-group trial in which schools offering social and emotional provision in line with good practice (Formby et al., Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education: A mapping study of the prevalent models of delivery and their effectiveness, 2010; OFSTED, Not Yet Good Enough: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in schools, 2013) will be randomised to either continue this provision (control) or include MT in this provision (intervention). The study will recruit and randomise 76 schools (clusters) and 5700 school students aged 12 to 14years, followed up for 2years. Discussion: The study will contribute to establishing if MT is an effective and cost-effective approach to promoting mental health in adolescence. Trials registration: International Standard Randomised Controlled Trials, identifier: ISRCTN86619085. Registered on 3 June 2016.
AB - Background: Mindfulness-based approaches for adults are effective at enhancing mental health, but few controlled trials have evaluated their effectiveness or cost-effectiveness for young people. The primary aim of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training (MT) programme to enhance mental health, wellbeing and social-emotional behavioural functioning in adolescence. Methods/design: To address this aim, the design will be a superiority, cluster randomised controlled, parallel-group trial in which schools offering social and emotional provision in line with good practice (Formby et al., Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education: A mapping study of the prevalent models of delivery and their effectiveness, 2010; OFSTED, Not Yet Good Enough: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education in schools, 2013) will be randomised to either continue this provision (control) or include MT in this provision (intervention). The study will recruit and randomise 76 schools (clusters) and 5700 school students aged 12 to 14years, followed up for 2years. Discussion: The study will contribute to establishing if MT is an effective and cost-effective approach to promoting mental health in adolescence. Trials registration: International Standard Randomised Controlled Trials, identifier: ISRCTN86619085. Registered on 3 June 2016.
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U2 - 10.1186/s13063-017-1917-4
DO - 10.1186/s13063-017-1917-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 28446223
AN - SCOPUS:85018327462
SN - 1745-6215
VL - 18
JO - Trials
JF - Trials
IS - 1
M1 - 194
ER -