Open AccessImpact and Feasibility of Information Technology to Support Adolescent Well-Being and Mental Health at School: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Author(s) -
Minna Anttila,
Tella Lantta,
Milla Ylitalo,
Marjo Kurki,
Marko Kuuskorpi,
Maritta Välimäki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1178-2390
DOI - 10.2147/jmdh.s311788
Subject(s) - mental health , psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , quality of life (healthcare) , affect (linguistics) , clinical psychology , wilcoxon signed rank test , medicine , psychology , statistical significance , mann–whitney u test , psychiatry , nursing , communication
Health-related behaviors that arise during adolescence can have important, sometimes lifelong, implications on a person's health. Psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses among minors have increased, and the related depressive symptoms may negatively affect quality of life. There is great potential for information technology (IT) to benefit the area of mental health for adolescents, and schools can serve as a setting in which this can be done. We tested whether the IT-based program "DepisNet" could be used as a universal school-based program to support adolescents' well-being and mental health.