ArticleInternet interventions2025
Prevention of mental health issues in the young: A randomised controlled evaluation of an e-mental health application for young adults to enhance mental health literacy.
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Background: The mental health of young adults is deteriorating. Reasons for this are manifold, ranging from biological factors (e.g. entering a vulnerable developmental phase) to crisis-related external events (e.g. COVID-19 pandemic). Accordingly, easily accessible and universal prevention for the young is needed. Mobile Health (mHealth) interventions are on the rise and especially promising for this age group, due to numerous benefits, such as low threshold, temporal and local flexibility and high scalability. However, the effectiveness and acceptance of mHealth interventions as prevention measures are missing empirical evidence. Method: In a two-arm randomised controlled trial design, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a mental health app, the 'Mental Health Guide', primarily on mental health literacy as well as secondary mental health outcomes. Results: The results show a significant intervention effect on mental health literacy for the intervention group in the post assessment ( Conclusion: This study contributes valuable insights into the potential effectiveness of mHealth prevention in young adults and gives insights on how such applications are used under very naturalistic settings, laying a foundation for future research in this field. However, generalisability is limited due to selective sample characteristics and a rather high drop-out rate over time.
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