- Title
- Effectiveness of a pragmatic school-based universal intervention targeting student resilience protective factors in reducing mental health problems in adolescents
- Creator
- Dray, Julia; Bowman, Jenny; Oldmeadow, Christopher; Attia, John; Gillham, Karen; Wiggers, John; Campbell, Elizabeth; Freund, Megan; Hodder, Rebecca; Wolfenden, Luke; Richards, Jody; Leane, Catherine; Green, Sue; Lecathelinais, Christophe
- Relation
- NHMRC.631025 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/631025
- Relation
- Journal of Adolescence Vol. 57, Issue June 2017, p. 74-89
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.03.009
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Worldwide, 10–20% of adolescents experience mental health problems. Strategies aimed at strengthening resilience protective factors provide a potential approach for reducing mental health problems in adolescents. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a universal, school-based intervention targeting resilience protective factors in reducing mental health problems in adolescents. A cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted in 20 intervention and 12 control secondary schools located in socio-economically disadvantaged areas of NSW, Australia. Data were collected from 3115 students at baseline (Grade 7, 2011), of whom 2149 provided data at follow up (Grade 10, 2014; enrolments in Grades 7 to 10 typically aged 12–16 years; 50% male; 69.0% retention). There were no significant differences between groups at follow-up for three mental health outcomes: total SDQ, internalising problems, and prosocial behaviour. A small statistically significant difference in favour of the control group was found for externalising problems. Findings highlight the continued difficulties in developing effective, school-based prevention programs for mental health problems in adolescents.
- Subject
- adolescence; universal intervention; resilience; mental health; schools; prevention
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354413
- Identifier
- uon:31265
- Identifier
- ISSN:0140-1971
- Rights
- © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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