"Fun．Feel．Share" Lyrics-writing and Singing Show - A Pilot Project is part of the Community-based Mental Wellness Project for Adolescents and Adults, which aims at promoting Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) and enhancing mental well-being. The Mental Wellness Project is financially supported by the Health Care and Promotion Fund from Food and Health Bureau and led by the School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong (HKU). "Fun．Feel．Share" Lyrics-writing and Singing Show - A Pilot Project aims to promote the SME related behaviors of adolescents through intervention of physical activities, and to promote their happiness, well-being and mental health knowledge.
A cluster randomized controlled trial design will be adopted. The major subjects are 720-900 students. Four secondary schools in Hong Kong will be included in the evaluation. Schools will either be assigned into lyrics-writing and singing show intervention group or wait-list control group (the intervention won't be provided during the evaluation period and will be provided after the evaluation period). The intervention mainly included 1) Lyrics-writing and Singing Competition with student and family entries: \[a\] lyrics-writing workshop and a short talk on SME focusing on praising family members and knowledge of adolescent mental health problem (in particular the anxiety disorders) and mental well-being; \[b\] use SME as theme for lyrics-writing and submit records of SME during lyrics-writing and singing; and \[d\] all entries are submitted in the form of audios. 2) SME Lyrics-writing and Singing Show and Award Ceremony (sharing): live performance by awarded entries and prize presentation ceremony. There will then be 4 assessments (pre-intervention, immediate post intervention, one month and three months after baseline) to evaluate the effects of the intervention programme. In the assessments, students will be asked to complete questionnaires to measure the changes in SME related behaviors, happiness, well-being and knowledge and attitude towards mental health. The satisfaction towards the intervention, as well as the level of participation and ratings for the intervention will be evaluated.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,784
Participants will participate in a Lyrics-Writing and Singing Competition. They will first attend a lyrics-writing workshop and a short talk on SME (Sharing, Mind, Enjoyment) focusing on praising family members and knowledge of adolescent mental health problem (in particular the anxiety disorders) and mental well-being; submit SME (Sharing, Mind, Enjoyment) worksheet, such as "Express Your Love to Family Member" after the workshops; participate in the SME (Sharing, Mind, Enjoyment) Lyrics-writing and Singing Show and Award Ceremony (sharing) with a live performance by awarded entries and prize presentation ceremony.
School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Changes in the concept of Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) for adolescents and their family members.
The outcome-based questionnaire will be used to evaluate participants' frequency of performing the suggested Sharing, Mind and Enjoyment (SME) related behaviors from baseline to four-month after baseline.
Time frame: T1: before the lyrics-writing workshop (baseline); T3: after the lyrics-writing competition (2-month after baseline); T4: after the singing show and award ceremony (4-month after baseline)
Changes in the knowledge and understanding about mental health for adolescents and their family members.
The outcome-based questionnaire will be used to evaluate participants' knowledge and understanding about anxiety disorder from baseline to four-month after baseline.
Time frame: T1: before the lyrics-writing workshop (baseline); T2: immediately after the workshop ( post intervention ); T3: after the lyrics-writing competition (2-month after baseline); T4: after the singing show and award ceremony (4-month after baseline)
Changes in personal happiness from baseline to four-month after baseline
Personal Personal happiness will be assessed by Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS). SHS was rated on 7-point scale with 1 indicating not happiness at all and 7 indicating extreme happiness. To score the scale, the 4th item will be coded reversely and mean of the 4 items will be computed.
Time frame: T1: before the lyrics-writing workshop (baseline); T3: after the lyrics-writing competition (2-month after baseline); T4: after the singing show and award ceremony (4-month after baseline)
Changes in mental well-being from baseline to four-month after baseline.
Mental well-being will be assessed by validated Chinese version of 7-item Warwick Edinburgh Well-being Scale
Time frame: T1: before the lyrics-writing workshop (baseline); T3: after the lyrics-writing competition (2-month after baseline); T4: after the singing show and award ceremony (4-month after baseline)
Changes in individual and family health from baseline to four-month after baseline
Self-perceived health, happiness and harmony at the individual and family level will be assessed by a 0-10 score at 3 time points
Time frame: T1: before the lyrics-writing workshop (baseline); T3: after the lyrics-writing competition (2-month after baseline); T4: after the singing show and award ceremony (4-month after baseline)
Satisfaction toward "Fun．Feel．Share" Lyrics-writing and Singing Show Project
Satisfaction towards the workshop, lyrics-writing competition, singing show and award ceremony will be assessed by programme evaluation measure
Time frame: T2: immediately after the workshop ( post intervention ); T3: after the lyrics-writing competition (2-month after baseline); T4: after the singing show and award ceremony (4-month after baseline)
The social impact of the community-based engagement project
The social impact of the community-based engagement project will be The satisfaction, ratings and opinions on "Fun．Feel．Share" Lyrics-writing and Singing Show programme of school principal/teacher/community partner in the intervention group will be assessed qualitatively (individual in-depth interviews)
Time frame: T4: after the singing show and award ceremony (4-month after baseline)
The process of community based intervention programme
The process evaluation on-site observation questionnaire will be used to assess the process of the community-based intervention programs.
Time frame: up to 4 months
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