An online intervention to promote mental health literacy for psychosis amongst parents of adolescents: A pilot randomized controlled trial

Miharu Nakanishi; Takahiro Tanaka; Atsushi Nishida; Nozomu Mandai; Nobutaka Kitamura; Hatsumi Yoshii

doi:10.1111/eip.13390

An online intervention to promote mental health literacy for psychosis amongst parents of adolescents: A pilot randomized controlled trial

Miharu Nakanishi, Takahiro Tanaka, Atsushi Nishida, Nozomu Mandai, Nobutaka Kitamura, Hatsumi Yoshii

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Aim: This study evaluated an online mental health literacy intervention to improve help-seeking for psychosis amongst parents of adolescents. Methods: A total of 2496 parents of first-grade junior high school students, recruited from a Japan-based survey company, participated in a randomized controlled trial in July 2016; participants were randomly allocated to the intervention (n = 1248) or control group (n = 1248). They were assessed at baseline and one-week post intervention. The intervention group received a 30-minute online educational programme that included a narrative of the mother of an adolescent with psychosis. Results: There were no between-group differences in changes in the rate of ‘no help-seeking’ in any hypothetical situations of a child's psychosis and prodromal symptoms. Conclusions: The intervention might have been suboptimal to improve mental health literacy for psychosis amongst parents of adolescents. A narrative message from a service user may be helpful to encourage parents in help-seeking.

Original language	English
Journal	Early Intervention in Psychiatry
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.13390
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2023

Keywords

adolescent
help-seeking
parents
psychosis
social stigma

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Phychiatric Mental Health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry

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