App-based guided problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health: a pilot cohort study in Indian schools.
App-based guided problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health: a pilot cohort study in Indian schools.
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基于App的青少年心理健康指导性问题解决干预:印度学校的试点队列研究
DOI:
10.1136/ebmental-2020-300194
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发表时间:
2021-03
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Patel V
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作者:
Gonsalves PP;Hodgson ES;Bhat B;Sharma R;Jambhale A;Michelson D;Patel V
This paper describes the pilot evaluation of ‘POD Adventures’, a lay counsellor-guided problem-solving intervention delivered via a smartphone app in Indian secondary schools. To test the feasibility and acceptability of POD Adventures for adolescents with a felt need for psychological support, and to explore the intervention’s effects on self-reported mental health symptoms, prioritised problems, stress and well-being. We used a mixed-methods pre-post cohort design. Participants were self-referred from grades 9–12 in two coeducational government-aided secondary schools in Goa, India. The intervention was delivered in two formats, ‘mixed’ (comprising individual and small group sessions) and ‘group’ (small group sessions only). 248 participants enrolled in the study and 230 (92.7%) completed the intervention. Outcomes at 4 weeks showed significant improvements on all measures that were maintained at 12 weeks. Large effects were observed on problem severity scores (4 weeks, d=1.47; 12 weeks, d=1.53) while small to moderate effects were seen on mental health symptoms, stress and well-being. 22 students completed qualitative interviews about their experience of the intervention. Participants found POD Adventures easy to use, engaging and helpful in solving their problems. They were satisfied with the guidance provided by the counsellor irrespective of delivery format. POD Adventures was feasible to deliver with guidance from lay counsellors in Indian schools, acceptable to participants and associated with large improvements in problem severity and mental health symptom severity. POD Adventures has promise as an early intervention for adolescents with a felt need for psychological support in low-resource settings.
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影响因子:
5
作者:
COHEN, S;KAMARCK, T;MERMELSTEIN, R
通讯作者:
MERMELSTEIN, R
影响因子:
4.7
作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.4103/0970-0218.177536
发表时间:
2016-04
期刊:
Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1111/jcpp.13258
发表时间:
2020-08
期刊:
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines
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作者:
Bevan Jones R;Stallard P;Agha SS;Rice S;Werner-Seidler A;Stasiak K;Kahn J;Simpson SA;Alvarez-Jimenez M;Rice F;Evans R;Merry S
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