A co-designed website (FindWays) to improve mental health literacy of parents of children with mental health problems: Protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health problems, such as behavioural and emotional problems, are prevalent in children. These problems can have long lasting, detrimental effects on the child, their parents and society. Most children with a mental health problem do not receive professional help. Those that do get help can face long wait times. While waiting, parents want to learn how they can help their child. To address this need, we co-designed a new website to help parents find ways of helping their child's mental health problem while waiting to get specialist help.

Objectives

To assess the acceptability and feasibility of a new co-designed website, FindWays, through a pilot randomised controlled trial. The protocol is registered with ISRCTN (ISRCTN64605513).

Methods

This study w

SUBMITTER: Peyton D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030009 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature