Aggregated mental health literacy, personal depression stigma, and help-seeking behaviors in adolescents Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
1. Study Design
This quasi-experimental case-control study takes place across seven public schools in three distinct Portuguese regions. Schools share comparable educational and structural characteris
Sponsors
Universidade do Porto
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
12 Years to 18 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Students enrolled in grades 7th to 12th during the 2018-2019 academic year 2. Attending one of the seven selected public schools in Portugal 3. Written informed consent obtained from both students and their parents or legal guardians 4. For the intervention group: students in classrooms where teachers successfully completed the specialized 62-hour mental health literacy training program 5. For the control group: students in schools that did not receive any component of the teacher training or classroom mental health literacy curriculum during the study period
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Students with severe cognitive or sensory impairments that preclude them from following regular classroom activities or completing the self-report questionnaires 2. Students with insufficient proficiency in the Portuguese language to understand the curriculum or complete the assessment instruments 3. Students who transferred into a participating classroom after the baseline data collection had already been completed 4. Students who were already participating in another mental health literacy program during the study period
Countries
Portugal
Contacts
Public ContactJoana Moreira
Outcome results
None listed