Author(s): Santos, José Carlos Pereira dos ; Simões, Rosa Maria Pereira ; Façanha, Jorge Daniel Neto ; Erse, Maria Pedro Queiroz de Azevedo ; Loureiro, Cândida Rosalinda Exposto Costa ; Matos, Maria Ermelinda Teixeira Smpaio ; Quaresma, Maria Helena dos Santos
Date: 2021
Origin: Repositório Científico da Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Subject(s): Mental health; Adolescence; school; Suicide prevention
This quasi-experimental study is part of the Mais Contigo Program. This program is a multilevel program that seeks to enhance the knowledge about mental health, suicidal behaviours, and specific skills to identify and refer risk situations. It involves the school community (parents and tutors/guardians, education agents, and students) and health professionals of the reference area. This is a quasi-experimental study, with a control group assessed at the beginning and end of the intervention during the academic year. The intervention directed at adolescents consists of 7 sessions in the classroom, addressing stigma, adolescence, self-concept, problem solving, depression, and well-being. The data collection tool (a questionnaire) is composed of several measurement instruments with the Portuguese version, such as the WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO, 1998), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II, Beck & Steer, 1987); Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale 2,(Piers & Hertzberg, 2002) and Coping (Esparbés et al., 1993. The questionnaire was applied to 39069 adolescents from schools of Portugal involved in the Mais Contigo program since 2011. This intervention was founded by Portuguese Mental Health Programme
