Giri, Priscilla
Lamb, Molly M.
Fuentes, Venessa C.
Thapa, Arpana
Bhattarai, Surekha
Dukpa, Choden
Shrestha, Catherine C.
Ekhteraei, Setareh
Vanderburg, Juliana L.
Windsor, Breanna
Rauniyar, Abhishek K.
Hampanda, Karen
Gaynes, Bradley N.
Lama, Rinzi
Matergia, Michael
Cruz, Christina M.
Clinical trials referenced in this document:
Documents that mention this clinical trial
Comparative child mental health and academic outcomes after primary school teachers deliver task-shifted mental health care in India
https://doi.org/10.1007/s44192-025-00217-2
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mariwala Health Initiative (DLRP Partnership, DLRP Partnership, DLRP Partnership, DLRP Partnership, DLRP Partnership, DLRP Partnership)
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (#2020143, #2021264 and #20230238, #2020143, #2021264 and #20230238, #2020143, #2021264 and #20230238, #2020143, #2021264 and #20230238)
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Junior Investigator Award, 2019, Junior Investigator Award, 2019, Junior Investigator Award, 2019)
Thrasher Research Fund (Early Career Award, Early Career Award)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2024
Accepted: 26 May 2025
First Online: 18 June 2025
Declarations
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: The research protocols and all informed consent forms were approved by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institutional Review Board and a Darjeeling-based Ethics Committee. Schools: PG, a psychiatric social worker, called principals of area schools to gauge interest. Interested principals discussed with their teachers their interest in intervention delivery and study participation. Teachers: All eligible teachers in participating schools were invited to meet with study representatives (PG) to review study protocols individually and privately. Those interested in participating in the study voluntarily signed a written informed consent. Caregivers: Study representatives (PG) individually privately met with each caregiver to review study protocols for their children and themselves. Those interested in participating and in having their children participate signed a written informed consent. Children: Children greater than 7 years of age were verbally assented individually and privately by PG for participating in the study and were allowed to refuse to participate. As part of our consent form for teachers and caregivers (for themselves and their children) and as part of assenting the children, teachers, caregivers, and children were made aware that findings from the study would be submitted for peer review with the possibility of publication. Any data presented in this manuscript has been de-identified.
: The trials were registered on January 01, 2018 with Clinical Trials Registry – India (CTRI), reg. no. CTRI/2018/01/011471, ref. no. REF/2017/11/015895 and on January 25, 2021 on clinicaltrials.gov, TRN NCT04723277
: CMC, PG, and MM hold the copyright to the training materials, decision support tools, and intervention materials for the teacher-led task-shifted alternative systems of children’s mental health care at the center of this manuscript. They have disclosed this interest fully to the publisher.