SynthesisBMC psychology2025
Mental health first aid training and assessment for healthcare professionals and medical nursing students: a systematic review.
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- Participant Perceptions of Continued Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Engagement, Help-Seeking Behavior, and Stigma Reduction: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of mental health first aid training for nursing students in northwestern China: a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Student-led implementation of Mental Health First Aid training in undergraduate medical education.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Effect of Mental Health First Aid Training on Pharmacist and Pharmacy Student Confidence and Knowledge: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
purposeTo summarize the effect of mental health first aid (MHFA) on paramedics and medical nursing students and provide direction to future training and research.
methodsSeven databases, including Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, China Knowledge, Wanfang, and China Biomedical Literature Database, were searched for relevant studies from database establishment up to January 31, 2023. The Cochrane risk of bias tool was used to assess the quality of randomized controlled trials, qualitative studies, and single-armed trials on the basis of the literature evaluation criteria developed by the JBI Center for Evidence-Based Healthcare in Australia. Mixed-sex studies were assessed by using the mixed-methods assessment tool (MMAT 2018).
resultsThe review identified 11 studies that met the criteria, most of which reported on the effects of MHFA training in terms of mental health literacy (referred to as MHL), MHFA intentions and confidence, stigma, and changes in social distance. A few studies analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of MHFA training courses, motivation to complete MHFA, barriers and facilitators to MHFA training, and participants' perceptions of implementing MHFA training.
conclusionsThe MHFA curriculum is practical for healthcare workers and medical nursing students. In the future, a standardized training program based on the population characteristics of healthcare workers and medical nursing students must be developed to standardize the measurement of outcome indicators to reflect the effectiveness of implementing the MHFA training curriculum. Our study has been registered to PROSPERO under registration number CRD42024519793.
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