Abstract:
Introduction In light of the ever-growing
mental health
disease burden among young people worldwide, we aim
to systematically review the global literature to identify the
public health programmes targeted at promoting mental
health and well-being
in young people, the reported/
anticipated mental health-related
outcomes of the
implemented public health programmes and the reported
facilitators and barriers in relation to the implementation of
those public health programmes.
Methods and analysis A comprehensive literature search
will be carried out in the following electronic bibliographic
databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Scopus, ASSIA,
Web of Science, Global Health, AMED, Health Source
and The Cochrane Library. Further, a manual search of
the reference lists of eligible studies and reviews will be
carried out. The search strategy will include combinations
of three key blocks of terms, namely: ‘young people’,
‘mental health’ and ‘public health programme’, using
database-specific
subject headings and text words. Two
reviewers will independently screen, assess data quality
and extract data for synthesis. Disagreements at any
stage will be resolved by consensus with the involvement
of a third reviewer. Given the anticipated methodological
pluralism of the potential eligible studies, we will provide
a narrative synthesis of the findings on public health
programmes aimed at promoting the mental health
and well-being
of young people according to identified
thematic areas. Furthermore, a narrative synthesis of
the reported facilitators and barriers in relation to the
implementation of public health programmes will be
provided.
Ethics and dissemination Given that the review findings
will be focused on understanding the breadth and depth
of the global research into public health programmes to
promote mental health in young people with a particular
emphasis on the facilitators and barriers of programmatic
implementation, the findings will be of great value to
inform future interventions, programmes and approaches
to promote mental health and well-being
of young people
worldwide.
