Francesca Taylor, Sarah Galloway, Kris Irons, Lorna Mess, Laura Pemberton, Karen Worton, Mary Chambers
Understanding organisational and nursing behaviour changes associated with a therapeutic engagement improvement tool in acute mental health inpatient settings: A qualitative analysis
International journal of nursing studies advances
mental health among adolescents important public health challenge school health services perform central public health functions norwegian municipalities school nurses uniquely positioned educate promote mental health among adolescents mest mest acronym mest short version norwegian word coping newly developed universal working strategy school health services aims promote positive mental health literacy mhl mental wellbeing adolescent population aim study investigate potential outcome mean differences positive mhl mental wellbeing adolescents participated participate mest school year study based cohort data collected 357 adolescents aged 1521 years five norwegian upper secondary schools beginning end 20162017 school year data analyzed describing mean scores estimating average treatment effect ate mest positive mhl mental wellbeing positive mhl increased significantly among mest participants compared nonmest participants p 02 significant change mental wellbeing found mest nonmest participants p 98 estimating ate mest positive mhl mest participants showed significant 21 increase p 04 potential outcome mean positive mhl compared nonparticipants estimating ate mest mental wellbeing girls attended mest exhibited significant 97 increase p 03 potential outcome mean mental wellbeing compared girls attend mest significant change p 99 detected among boys entire sample genders combined p 12 study found significant ate mest positive mhl mental wellbeing among girls results support investments studying mest promising work strategy school health services promote adolescent mental health initial study mest may used foundation investing future evaluations mest