Recruiting

Mental Hygiene Challenge

Sponsor:

The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

Code:

NCT06287216

Conditions

Mental Wellbeing

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Mental Hygiene

Self-Care

Study Details

Brief summary:

The mental hygiene challenge is a Royal Ottawa Health Care Group led initiative to engage the staff, clients and community members to attend to their mental well-being by way of practicing mental hygiene activities for 10 min on a daily basis, throughout the month of March. Participants are encouraged to choose one or many of the practices recommended and do them for about 10 minutes a day. Participants are encouraged to make it their own, in that they can combine the practice or tailor them in a way that suits them best. When signing up for the challenge, participants receive free access to a toolkit with brief outlines and instructional videos on various mental hygiene practices.

Study investigators also encourage participants to divide the 10 minutes in whatever way best works for them, such as 10 minutes all at once, 5 minutes twice, or even 2 minutes five times. This study aims to expand on the work that was done in 2022 and 2023, when the World Health Organization - 5 Wellbeing Index (WHO-5) and the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) were collected from participants to ascertain the impact of mental hygiene, by way of including a control group.

Conditions

Mental Wellbeing

Study ID

NCT06287216

Start date

Feb 29, 2024

Status verified date

Mar, 2025

Completion date

Apr 30, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr 30, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years and above
  • can speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Have previously participated in the mental hygiene challenge (exclusion for the control group).

Study Design

Enrollment

200 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Mental Hygiene Group

This is the group participating in the mental hygiene challenge that is willing to give informed consent and conduct pre-post as well as daily well-being surveys.

active comparator: Self-Care Group

Similar to the above, instead of recommending mental hygiene, the investigators will be recommending daily self-care, and offer standard government issued resources, as well as resources from other reputable organizations.

Interventions

Mental Hygiene

Mental hygiene are daily evidence based practices that support mental wellbeing.

Self-Care

Instructed to do 10 minutes of self-care daily.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change in level of mental wellbeing as measured by the World Health Organization (WHO)-5 wellbeing index. [ Time Frame: Over approximately a 30 day period. ]
  • Change in level of mental wellbeing as measured by the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) [ Time Frame: Over approximately a 30 day period. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

The Royal

Recruiting

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z7K4

Contacts

Ottawa

613-345-1461guillaume.tremblay@theroyal.ca

Principal Investigator:

Guillaume Tremblay, NP

More Information

Sponsor

The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

Last update posted

Dec 12, 2025

Last verified

Mar, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre on 2025-12-12.