Brandt Irene, Some Sylvain, Millogo Ourohiré, Sourabié Oumar, Burns Jacob, Shinde Sachin, Haucke Matthias, Sivewright Nathan, Neumann Christine, Bajaria Shraddha, Napon Katian, Dah Clarisse, Taonda Marina, Siegel Jason T, Sando Mary Mwanyika, Bärnighausen Till, Sié Ali, Liu Shuyan
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Campus Charité Mitte), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg, Germany.
BMC Public Health. 2025 Jan 9;25(1):107. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-21325-2.
In Burkina Faso, nearly half of the population is under 15 years old, and one in four adolescents experience depression. This underscores the critical need to enhance mental health literacy among adolescents and youth, empowering them to manage their mental well-being effectively. Comic books offer an engaging approach to health education, yet their effectiveness in addressing mental health remains largely untested. Our study aims to fill this gap by evaluating the effectiveness of comic books in enhancing mental health literacy among adolescents and young adults aged 10-24 years.
We will recruit 2,007 participants aged 10-24, stratify them by age, and randomly assign them to three groups (1:1:1): a comic book intervention group (Intervention 1), a text-only flyer group (Intervention 2), and a control group with no intervention. The primary outcome will be mental health literacy and secondary outcomes will include anxiety, depression, and intentions to cope.
We hypothesize that the comic book intervention and flyer intervention will prove more effective in improving mental health literacy than the control group. We further hypothesize that for younger adolescents (10-14), the comic book will be more effective at increasing mental health literacy than the flyer. Conversely, we hypothesize that the flyer will be more effective in increasing mental health literacy for older adolescents (15-24). Our study will provide evidence on novel interventions designed to enhance mental health literacy among adolescents and young adults in low-resource settings.
This trial has been registered on the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS), with the registration number DRKS00034242.
在布基纳法索，近一半人口年龄在15岁以下，四分之一的青少年患有抑郁症。这凸显了提高青少年心理健康素养的迫切需求，使他们能够有效管理自己的心理健康。漫画书提供了一种引人入胜的健康教育方式，但其在解决心理健康问题方面的有效性仍 largely未经测试。我们的研究旨在通过评估漫画书对10至24岁青少年和年轻人心理健康素养的提升效果来填补这一空白。
我们将招募2007名年龄在10至24岁之间的参与者，按年龄分层，并将他们随机分为三组（1:1:1）：漫画书干预组（干预1）、仅文字传单组（干预2）和无干预的对照组。主要结果将是心理健康素养，次要结果将包括焦虑、抑郁和应对意图。
我们假设漫画书干预和传单干预在提高心理健康素养方面将比对照组更有效。我们进一步假设，对于较年轻的青少年（10至14岁），漫画书在提高心理健康素养方面将比传单更有效。相反，我们假设传单在提高15至24岁较年长青少年的心理健康素养方面将更有效。我们的研究将为旨在提高低资源环境中青少年和年轻人心理健康素养的新干预措施提供证据。
该试验已在德国临床试验注册中心（DRKS）注册，注册号为DRKS00034242。
