Annie O'Brien, Suzanne Hamilton, Neil Humphrey, Pamela Qualter, Jan R Boehnke, Joao Santos, Ola Demkowicz, Margarita Panayiotou, Alex Thompson, Jennifer Lau, Lauren Burke, Yizhuo Lu
Examining the impact of a universal social and emotional learning intervention (Passport) on internalising symptoms and other outcomes among children, compared to the usual school curriculum: study protocol for a school-based cluster randomised trial
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