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Filter by:The goal of this trial is to evaluate the impact of different testing strategies with Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) on reduction of school absences. RATs are relatively inexpensive, fast, and can be performed at the point of care. Provision of testing in schools will allow rapid identification and isolation of individuals infected with Covid-19. This will likely reduce COVID-19 transmission, as well as allow symptomatic COVID-19 negative students to return to classroom, avoiding the 10-days isolation period. If proven successful, the lessons from this study can be translated to schools in similar settings. While several testing strategies have been proposed and evaluated in developed countries, no studies have evaluated the role of testing for safe operation of schools or reducing absenteeism in developing country contexts.The lessons learned from this study is likely to inform government policy regarding the provision of testing in school. Study design: Cluster randomized trial School types: Three types based on testing: - Intervention school-1: Test all symptomatic students, teachers, and support staff ; and track symptoms and absenteeism - Intervention school-2: Test all students, teachers, and support staff every 3 days, irrespective of symptoms (also test whenever develops symptoms) and track symptoms and absenteeism - Control school: Only track the students for symptom notification and absenteeism
Adolescence is a period of many physical, mental, emotional, and social changes. It is also associated with risk behaviour conducts. Nonetheless, not all youths under disadvantage, adversity, or exposure to risk factors experience negative mental health outcomes. The concept of RESILIENCE provides one possible explanation for the ability of some individuals to maintain positive mental health. Resilience is thus the ability of an individual or community to adapt to life challenges or adversities while maintaining mental health and well-being. The increasing prevalence of mental disorders amongst children (around 10-20% of young people) makes positive mental health promotion in schools necessary through intervention programmes. UPRIGHT (Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally implemented in schools to improve and promote mental Health for Teenagers) is a research and innovation project funded by the European Union´s Horizon 2020 programme (No. 754919). UPRIGHT general aim is to promote mental well-being and prevent mental disorders in youth by enhancing resilience capacities. It has been designed as a whole school approach addressing early adolescents, their families and the school community to finally create a real mental well-being culture at schools.
The main objective of this study is to examine the efficacy of a new psychological intervention, called Back2School, in helping youths with problematic school absenteeism to return to school. Furthermore, the study will examine how well this program fares against the treatment or interventions that are usually given to youths with school absenteeism (treatment as usual or TAU). Based on previous studies we hypothesize that the Back2School intervention will be better at improving levels of school attendance as compared with treatment as usual (TAU).