Grow With Grit: A Nurse-Led SBIRT Model for Early Anxiety Detection and School-Based Mental Health Intervention in Rural Youth
McLaughlin Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Inc.
Summary
All enrolled students and their parents or guardians will complete baseline anxiety questionnaires. Students with a positive baseline screen will receive a brief school nurse-delivered coping skill, referral support when indicated, and follow-up assessments at approximately three and six months. Students with a negative screen will not enter the intervention and follow-up phase.
Description
Anxiety in elementary-aged children may first appear as headaches, stomachaches, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, or other physical symptoms. These concerns can lead to repeated school health-office visits, difficulty remaining in class, and missed school before a child recognizes or reports feeling anxious. Such patterns are particularly important in rural schools, where access to onsite behavioral health professionals may be limited. Grow with Grit is a prospective, single-cohort Hybrid Type II pilot clinical trial conducted in four public elementary schools in Great Falls, Montana. The study in…