Validation of training module to increase self-efficacy of adolescent peer counsellors in Indonesia.

Peer counsellor programs are one of many countermeasures for current issues in adolescent mental health. Peer counsellors need to have adequate capability and self-efficacy especially in basic counselling skills to be able to help their peers in their daily life. A validated training module for peer counsellors in mental health context has not yet been developed in Indonesia. This research aims to develop, and evaluate content and empirical validity of a training module for adolescent peer counsellors in Indonesia. A training module was developed based on a systematic literature review. Expert judgment was elicited to ensure content validity, while a quasi-experiment with two groups control design with a pretest and post-test measure was conducted to evaluate empirical validity. Thirty experimental group subjects and 14 control group subjects were involved in this study. Expert judgment showed the training module had satisfactory content validity, fulfilling statistical consensus requirements. Analysis using EffectLiteR showed that peer counsellor training had a significant effect on self-efficacy with a significance score of 0.019 ( < 0.05) for average effect. The module has adequate content and empirical validity to increase counselling self-efficacy in adolescent peer counsellors.