ArticleChild and adolescent mental health2025
Debate: Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions? Universal versus targeted school-based mental health interventions: a health economic perspective.
Article in Child and adolescent mental health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Advancing School Behavioral Health Implementation: A Critical Review Using ISF 2.0.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Implementation and student outcomes of an implementation strategy for the sustainability of group evidence-based practices in schools.Research square · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic prevention in youth mental health, Part II: interventions.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Efficacy of a school-based, universal prevention programme for depression and anxiety in adolescents (OurFutures Mental Health): a two-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Commentary: Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions? Don't through the baby out with the bathwater.Child and adolescent mental health · 2025Article
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- A scoping review of physical activity interventions to support the mental health of students aged 16 to 25.Discover public health · 2025Review
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Abstract
Mental health problems in schools are a concern and various initiatives have been developed to address these. Interventions can be universal (covering a whole school) or targeted (addressing those with specific needs). Any new intervention should be evaluated, and this should include an assessment of cost-effectiveness. Evidence to date suggests that while gains from universal schemes may be modest, they can still be cost-effective given the extent of their reach. However, targeted interventions can address key health inequalities which should also be an objective of an economic evaluation. Studies that have examined the longer term impact of both universal and targeted approaches have demonstrated that both can represent good values for money, and it is likely that a blended or tiered approach is appropriate.
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