SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Efficacy and Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Wellbeing Interventions in Australia: A Systematic Review.
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- Early interventions for first onset of symptoms of mental health conditions: an umbrella review of systematic reviews.BMC medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Social inequalities in the effects of school-based well-being interventions: a systematic review.European journal of public health · 2025Pooled it
- Digital media balance and mental health: effects of a school-based program.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- The unexpected impact of the second year of Explo'Santé, a school-based health education programme on life skills development among 5th grade pupils in France: an interventional cohort study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Autistic young people's psychological well-being in school.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Well-being in upper secondary school students: confirming a 15-factor structure and a class-allocated feasibility trial with practice guidance.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of a School-Based Mental Health Training Programme: The Transformative, Resilient, Youth-Led (TRY) Gym.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Let's Learn About Emotions Program: Acceptability, Fidelity, and Students' Mental Well-Being Outcomes for Finnish Primary School Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Health Education in the Curriculum of Early Childhood Education in Galicia, Spain: An Analysis of Decree 150/2022.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Barriers and Facilitators of International Health Care Students' Well-Being in Higher Education: Protocol for a Systematic Integrative Review.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Adopting the principles and practices of learning health systems in universities and colleges: recommendations for delivering actionable data to improve student mental health.Cogent mental health · 2024Article
- Universal school-based e-health interventions for wellbeing, anxiety and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
The World Health Organisation defines health in terms of wellbeing, and wellbeing has become both a construct and a measure of impact in early intervention and prevention programs in schools. In Australia, schools report on their wellbeing initiatives and there is a plethora of government-funded wellbeing programs already in place in schools. However, education systems and stakeholders worldwide are facing significant challenges with mixed evaluation results of program impact and intervention effect. To better support students, schools, school-based healthcare workers, and community, it is important to know about the effectiveness of school-based programs; yet in the last decade, there has been no national appraisal of these programs in Australia. This systematic review aims to report on the effectiveness of Australian school-based wellbeing programs through a search of 13 databases. Out of 2888 articles, 29 met inclusion criteria. The results found that seventeen interventions comprising 80% of the total number of participants reported no statistically significant intervention effect on wellbeing outcomes. We argue that supporting wellbeing through robust program intervention is important as wellbeing presents both an indication of later onset of more serious mental health issues, and an opportunity for early intervention to break the trajectory leading to full disorder.
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