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Table 1 Frequency and Percentage of Articles’ Study Design, Context and Primary Aim

From: A systematic literature review of existing conceptualisation and measurement of mental health literacy in adolescent research: current challenges and inconsistencies

 

Study Design

 

Population Study

Intervention Study

 

58 (64%)

33 (36%)

Study Context

 School-based

41 (71%)

31 (94%)

Primary Aim

 Scale development and/or validation

4 (7%)

–

 Describe levels of MHL

39 (67%)

–

 Explore possible predictors of mental illness stigma

4 (7%)

–

 Explore possible predictors of help-seeking attitudes and intentions

6 (10%)

–

 Explore relationship between MHL domains

5 (9%)

–

 Intervention evaluation i.e. assessing the impact of an intervention

–

25 (76%)

 Intervention baseline study i.e. describe level of MHL, explore predictors of specific domains or relationship between MHL domains

–

8 (24%)

  1. Note: For population and intervention study design, % out of 91, for study context and primary aim, % out of number of population and intervention-based articles i.e. 58 and 33 respectively