Margi Engineer, Sushant Kot, Emma Dixon
Investigating the Readability and Linguistic, Psychological, and Emotional Characteristics of Digital Dementia Information Written in the English Language: Multitrait-Multimethod Text Analysis
JMIR formative research
given problems disparities use communitybased mental health services youth school personnel assumed frontline mental health service roles date research schoolbased services evaluated analog educational contexts services implemented highly trained study staff little known effectiveness schoolbased mental health services implemented school professionals randomeffects metaanalytic procedures used synthesize effects schoolbased mental health services elementary schoolage children delivered school personnel potential moderators treatment response fortythree controlled trials evaluating 49941 elementary schoolage children met selection criteria mean grade 286 603 boys overall schoolbased services demonstrated smalltomedium effect hedges g 039 decreasing mental health problems largest effects found targeted intervention hedges g 076 followed selective prevention hedges g 067 compared universal prevention hedges g 029 mental health services integrated students academic instruction hedges g 059 targeting externalizing problems hedges g 050 incorporating contingency management hedges g 057 implemented multiple times per week hedges g 050 showed particularly strong effects considering serious barriers precluding youth accessing necessary mental health care present metaanalysis suggests child psychiatrists mental health professionals wise recognize important role school personnel naturally childrens lives play decreasing child mental health problems