Acceptability and Feasibility of the ProLiSMental Psychoeducational Intervention to Promote Adolescents’ Mental Health Literacy on Anxiety in a School Context

Abstract

The ProLiSMental psychoeducational intervention intends to promote adolescents’ mental health literacy on anxiety, facilitating their access, understanding, evaluation, and use of effective mental health information. This study aimed to assess the acceptability and feasibility of that intervention in a school context and improve its content, structure, and procedure. A convenience sample of seventeen participants has been recruited: eleven students (mean age = 14.09 years, SD = 0,30) and six education and health professionals (mean age = 53.00 years, SD = 4,05). High levels of acceptability and feasibility of the ProLiSMental psychoeducational intervention were observed and important improvements were made.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Professor Anthony Jorm for always being available throughout the research process, to all the participants in this study and the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA:E) of the Nursing School of Coimbra, for always being available and providing support in all phases of the research process and development of the ProLiSMental psychoeducational intervention.

Declaration of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.