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Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation
BACKGROUND: Chinese students are extremely vulnerable to developing mental illness. The stigma associated with mental illness presents a barrier to seeking help for their mental health. OBJECTIVE: The Linking Hearts—Linking Youth and ‘Xin’ (hearts) project is an implementation science project that s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33973869 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/25009 |
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author | Wong, Josephine Pui-Hing Jia, Cun-Xian Vahabi, Mandana Liu, Jenny Jing Wen Li, Alan Tai-Wai Cong, Xiaofeng Poon, Maurice Kwong-Lai Yamada, Janet Ning, Xuan Gao, Jianguo Cheng, Shengli Sun, Guoxiao Wang, Xinting Fung, Kenneth Po-Lun |
author_facet | Wong, Josephine Pui-Hing Jia, Cun-Xian Vahabi, Mandana Liu, Jenny Jing Wen Li, Alan Tai-Wai Cong, Xiaofeng Poon, Maurice Kwong-Lai Yamada, Janet Ning, Xuan Gao, Jianguo Cheng, Shengli Sun, Guoxiao Wang, Xinting Fung, Kenneth Po-Lun |
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description | BACKGROUND: Chinese students are extremely vulnerable to developing mental illness. The stigma associated with mental illness presents a barrier to seeking help for their mental health. OBJECTIVE: The Linking Hearts—Linking Youth and ‘Xin’ (hearts) project is an implementation science project that seeks to reduce mental illness stigma and promote the mental health of university students in Jinan, China. The Linking Hearts project consists of 3 components. In this paper, we outline the protocol for the first component, that is, the contextual assessment and analysis of the mental health needs of university students as the first step to inform the adaptation of an evidence-based intervention to be implemented in Jinan, China. METHODS: Six local universities will participate in the Linking Hearts project. A total of 100 students from each university (n=600) will engage in the contextual assessment through self-report surveys on depression, anxiety, stress, mental health knowledge, and mental health stigma. Quantitative data will be analyzed using several descriptive and inferential analyses via SPSS. A small number of participants (144 students and 144 service providers) will also be engaged in focus groups to assess the socio-environmental contexts of university students’ health and availability of mental health resources. Qualitative data will be transcribed verbatim and NVivo will be used for data management. Social network analysis will also be performed using EgoNet. RESULTS: Linking Hearts was funded in January 2018 for 5 years. The protocol of Linking Hearts and its 3 components was approved by the research ethics boards of all participating institutions in China in November 2018. Canadian institutions that gave approval were Ryerson University (REB2018-455) in January 2019, University of Alberta (Pro00089364), York University (e2019-162) in May 2019, and University of Toronto (RIS37724) in August 2019. Data collection took place upon ethics approval and was completed in January 2020. A total of 600 students were surveyed. An additional 147 students and 138 service providers took part in focus groups. Data analysis is ongoing. Results will be published in 2021. CONCLUSIONS: Findings from this contextual assessment and analysis will generate new knowledge on university students’ mental health status, mental health knowledge, and resources available for them. These findings will be used to adapt and refine the Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment-Linking Youth N’ Xin intervention model. The results of this contextual assessment will be used to inform the adaptation and refinement of the mental health intervention to promote the mental health of Chinese university students in Jinan. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): RR1-10.2196/25009 |
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spelling | pubmed-81504052021-06-11 Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation Wong, Josephine Pui-Hing Jia, Cun-Xian Vahabi, Mandana Liu, Jenny Jing Wen Li, Alan Tai-Wai Cong, Xiaofeng Poon, Maurice Kwong-Lai Yamada, Janet Ning, Xuan Gao, Jianguo Cheng, Shengli Sun, Guoxiao Wang, Xinting Fung, Kenneth Po-Lun JMIR Res Protoc Protocol BACKGROUND: Chinese students are extremely vulnerable to developing mental illness. The stigma associated with mental illness presents a barrier to seeking help for their mental health. OBJECTIVE: The Linking Hearts—Linking Youth and ‘Xin’ (hearts) project is an implementation science project that seeks to reduce mental illness stigma and promote the mental health of university students in Jinan, China. The Linking Hearts project consists of 3 components. In this paper, we outline the protocol for the first component, that is, the contextual assessment and analysis of the mental health needs of university students as the first step to inform the adaptation of an evidence-based intervention to be implemented in Jinan, China. METHODS: Six local universities will participate in the Linking Hearts project. A total of 100 students from each university (n=600) will engage in the contextual assessment through self-report surveys on depression, anxiety, stress, mental health knowledge, and mental health stigma. Quantitative data will be analyzed using several descriptive and inferential analyses via SPSS. A small number of participants (144 students and 144 service providers) will also be engaged in focus groups to assess the socio-environmental contexts of university students’ health and availability of mental health resources. Qualitative data will be transcribed verbatim and NVivo will be used for data management. Social network analysis will also be performed using EgoNet. RESULTS: Linking Hearts was funded in January 2018 for 5 years. The protocol of Linking Hearts and its 3 components was approved by the research ethics boards of all participating institutions in China in November 2018. Canadian institutions that gave approval were Ryerson University (REB2018-455) in January 2019, University of Alberta (Pro00089364), York University (e2019-162) in May 2019, and University of Toronto (RIS37724) in August 2019. Data collection took place upon ethics approval and was completed in January 2020. A total of 600 students were surveyed. An additional 147 students and 138 service providers took part in focus groups. Data analysis is ongoing. Results will be published in 2021. CONCLUSIONS: Findings from this contextual assessment and analysis will generate new knowledge on university students’ mental health status, mental health knowledge, and resources available for them. These findings will be used to adapt and refine the Acceptance and Commitment to Empowerment-Linking Youth N’ Xin intervention model. The results of this contextual assessment will be used to inform the adaptation and refinement of the mental health intervention to promote the mental health of Chinese university students in Jinan. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): RR1-10.2196/25009 JMIR Publications 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8150405/ /pubmed/33973869 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/25009 Text en ©Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, Cun-Xian Jia, Mandana Vahabi, Jenny Jing Wen Liu, Alan Tai-Wai Li, Xiaofeng Cong, Maurice Kwong-Lai Poon, Janet Yamada, Xuan Ning, Jianguo Gao, Shengli Cheng, Guoxiao Sun, Xinting Wang, Kenneth Po-Lun Fung. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 11.05.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Protocol Wong, Josephine Pui-Hing Jia, Cun-Xian Vahabi, Mandana Liu, Jenny Jing Wen Li, Alan Tai-Wai Cong, Xiaofeng Poon, Maurice Kwong-Lai Yamada, Janet Ning, Xuan Gao, Jianguo Cheng, Shengli Sun, Guoxiao Wang, Xinting Fung, Kenneth Po-Lun Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation |
title | Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation |
title_full | Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation |
title_fullStr | Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation |
title_full_unstemmed | Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation |
title_short | Promoting the Mental Health of University Students in China: Protocol for Contextual Assessment to Inform Intervention Design and Adaptation |
title_sort | promoting the mental health of university students in china: protocol for contextual assessment to inform intervention design and adaptation |
topic | Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33973869 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/25009 |
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