A Mobile Peer Intervention for Preventing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems in Adolescents: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (The Mind Your Mate Study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders have significant social and economic impacts, which are largely attributable to their early age of onset and chronic disabling course. Therefore, it is critical to intervene early to prevent chronic and debilitating trajectories.

Objective

This paper describes the study protocol of a CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials)-compliant randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of the Mind your Mate program, a mobile health (mHealth) peer intervention that aims to prevent mental health (focusing on anxiety and depression) and substance use problems in adolescents.

Methods

Participants will consist of approximately 840 year 9 or year 10 students (60 students per grade per school) from 14

SUBMITTER: Birrell L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8367112 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature