Efficacy of a school-based, universal prevention programme for depression and anxiety in adolescents (OurFutures Mental Health): a two-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial
Lucinda Grummitt, Siobhan O'Dean, Louise Birrell, Sasha Bailey, Isobel Ivison, Emily Hunter, An Nguyen, Erin Veronica Kelly, Lauren A. Gardner, Katrina E. Champion, Cath Chapman, Maree Teesson, Nicola C. Newton, Emma L. Barrett · 2025
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Lucinda Grummitt and co-authors trial a school program to prevent depression and anxiety in teens in Australia, in work from twenty twenty-five. Teen years mark a critical window when mental health troubles often start. The program, OurFutures Mental Health, runs six lessons in class. It uses thought-behaviour methods in a trauma-aware, affirming frame. Ten schools join a cluster trial with whole schools randomised.
Usual health classes serve as the active control arm. Teen knowledge and symptom scores are the main outcomes at three months. Close to eight hundred students give baseline data across the schools. Several schools withdraw before baseline, mostly from the control arm. Knowledge scores rise right after the program in the intervention group. That knowledge edge does not hold at the three-month check. Symptom outcomes are weighed in the full trial report alongside knowledge.
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| CREATOR | Lucinda Grummitt, Siobhan O'Dean, Louise Birrell, Sasha Bailey, Isobel Ivison, Emily Hunter, An Nguyen, Erin Veronica Kelly, Lauren A. Gardner, Katrina E. Champion, Cath Chapman, Maree Teesson, Nicola C. Newton, Emma L. Barrett |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |