biostudies-literatureUnknown33(9)Hayes DDepartment for EducationReviews into universal interventions to improve help seeking in young people focus on specific concepts, such as behaviour, do not differentiate between interpersonal and intrapersonal help seeking, and often report on statistical significance, rather than effect size. The aim of this review was to address the gaps highlighted above, to investigate the impact of universal, school-based interventions on help-seeking in children and young people, as well as to explore longer term impact. Four databases were searched. Data were extracted on country of origin, design, participant, school, and intervention characteristics, the help-seeking concept measured (e.g. knowledge, attitude/intention, behaviour), the duration between baseline and each follow-up (if applicable) and effect sizes at each fEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2911-2928https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9837763biostudies-literatureThe impact of universal, school based, interventions on help seeking in children and young people: a systematic literature review.PMC9837763Mansfield RBoehnke JAshworth EMoltrecht BDeighton JMoore AHumphrey NSantos JPatalay PHayes DMason CStallard PfalseThe impact of universal, school based, interventions on help seeking in children and young people: a systematic literature review.Reviews into universal interventions to improve help seeking in young people focus on specific concepts, such as behaviour, do not differentiate between interpersonal and intrapersonal help seeking, and often report on statistical significance, rather than effect size. The aim of this review was to address the gaps highlighted above, to investigate the impact of universal, school-based interventions on help-seeking in children and young people, as well as to explore longer term impact. Four databases were searched. Data were extracted on country of origin, design, participant, school, and intervention characteristics, the help-seeking concept measured (e.g. knowledge, attitude/intention, behaviour), the duration between baseline and each follow-up (if applicable) and effect sizes at each f2024-01-01T00:00:00Z2024 Sep2026-03-27T16:16:27.094Z2025-02-19T04:00:08.02ZS-EPMC98377633663748210.1007/s00787-022-02135-y