Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention to Improve and Promote Mental Health for Teenagers

Summary

Adolescence is a period of many physical, mental, emotional, and social changes. It is also associated with risk behaviour conducts. Nonetheless, not all youths under disadvantage, adversity, or exposure to risk factors experience negative mental health outcomes. The concept of RESILIENCE provides one possible explanation for the ability of some individuals to maintain positive mental health. Resilience is thus the ability of an individual or community to adapt to life challenges or adversities while maintaining mental health and well-being. The increasing prevalence of mental disorders amongst children (around 10-20% of young people) makes positive mental health promotion in schools necessary through intervention programmes. UPRIGHT (Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally implemented in schools to improve and promote mental Health for Teenagers) is a research and innovation project funded by the European Union´s Horizon 2020 programme (No. 754919). UPRIGHT general aim is to promote mental well-being and prevent mental disorders in youth by enhancing resilience capacities. It has been designed as a whole school approach addressing early adolescents, their families and the school community to finally create a real mental well-being culture at schools.

Conditions

• Anxiety Symptoms
• Depressive Symptoms
• Behavioral Problem of Child
• Mental Disorder in Adolescence
• School Absenteeism
• Bullying of Child
• Cyberbullying
• Violence in Adolescence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

UPRIGHT intervention

The UPRIGHT intervention design consists of two different phases consecutively implemented in two school years: intensive phase and follow-up phase. During the intensive phase, all stakeholders are trained in the UPRIGHT WELL-BEING FOR US programme (18 skills). The follow-up phase (WELL-BEING FOR ALL) intends not only to maintain the effect of the intensive training in youths, but also to boost the positive mental health atmosphere created in the whole school. To do so, different collective activities will be organized at school level such as celebration of thematic days, activities with the community, and outdoor/indoor activities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Osakidetza

  collaborator OTHER

• Bruno Kessler Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Urzad Marszalkowski Wojewodztwa Dolnoslaskiego in Poland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  collaborator OTHER

• Directorate of Health in Iceland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Aarhus

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Iceland

  collaborator OTHER

• Daily Centre for Psychiatry and Speech Disorders Poland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Falkiewicz Specialist Hospital

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Biosistemak Institute for Health Systems Research

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Carlota Las Hayas · Biosistemak Institute for Health Systems Research

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

12 Years

Max Age

14 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-01-01

Primary Completion

2021-12-31

Completion

2021-12-31

Countries

• Denmark
• Iceland
• Italy
• Poland
• Spain

Study Locations