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| Title |
‘teen Mental Health First Aid’: a description of the program and an initial evaluation
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| Published in |
International Journal of Mental Health Systems, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13033-016-0034-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Laura M. Hart, Robert J. Mason, Claire M. Kelly, Stefan Cvetkovski, Anthony F. Jorm |
| Abstract |
Many adolescents have poor mental health literacy, stigmatising attitudes towards people with mental illness, and lack skills in providing optimal Mental Health First Aid to peers. These could be improved with training to facilitate better social support and increase appropriate help-seeking among adolescents with emerging mental health problems. teen Mental Health First Aid (teen MHFA), a new initiative of Mental Health First Aid International, is a 3 × 75 min classroom based training program for students aged 15-18 years. An uncontrolled pilot of the teen MHFA course was undertaken to examine the feasibility of providing the program in Australian secondary schools, to test relevant measures of student knowledge, attitudes and behaviours, and to provide initial evidence of program effects. Across four schools, 988 students received the teen MHFA program. 520 students with a mean age of 16 years completed the baseline questionnaire, 345 completed the post-test and 241 completed the three-month follow-up. Statistically significant improvements were found in mental health literacy, confidence in providing Mental Health First Aid to a peer, help-seeking intentions and student mental health, while stigmatising attitudes significantly reduced. teen MHFA appears to be an effective and feasible program for training high school students in Mental Health First Aid techniques. Further research is required with a randomized controlled design to elucidate the causal role of the program in the changes observed. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 274 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 49 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 35 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 25 | 9% |
| Researcher | 21 | 8% |
| Other | 35 | 13% |
| Unknown | 79 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 85 | 31% |
| Social Sciences | 29 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 28 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 21 | 8% |
| Unknown | 88 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 June 2022.
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