French mental health first aid guidelines for eating disorders: an exploration of user characteristics and usefulness among college students

Abstract

College students might be particularly interested in learning more about ED and the guidelines could be valuable to address the gap in available resources for ED-related mental health literacy.

Online parenting guidelines to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety: Evaluating user characteristics and usefulness

“…Limitations of this study include the self‐selection of participants, sole reliance on self‐report of perceptions rather than actual behaviour and high attrition between Surveys 1 and 2. The attrition rate in this study is comparable to 2 other recent guidelines evaluation studies (Melioli et al, ; Sim et al, ), and high attrition is more the norm than an exception in e‐health research, especially with self‐help programs (Eysenbach, ). Indeed, Eysenbach () suggested various innovative techniques that can be used to analyse data from e‐health trials with high attrition rates.…”

“…However, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the impact that such information has on actual health behaviours (Reavley & Jorm, ). More recently, studies have evaluated users' reported impact from accessing mental‐health related guidelines online (Berk et al, ; Hart, Jorm, Paxton, & Cvetkovski, ; Melioli, Rispal, Hart, Chabrol, & Rodgers, ; Sim, Jones, Jorm, & Yap, ). Albeit preliminary, these studies suggest that accessing evidence‐based mental health guidelines is acceptable and can positively influence health‐related behaviours.…”

Guidelines for the public on how to provide mental health first aid: narrative review

“…The same methodology was used in a study of a French-language version of the eating disorders guidelines that was made available on a website aimed at French college students. 65 Results were similar, with a small minority of people reporting that they used the information to assist someone, including encouraging professional help.…”

“…Although the response rate at follow-up was only 22%, there were people who reported that they had used the guidelines to assist someone and that the person had sought professional help as a result. The same methodology was used in a study of a French-language version of the eating disorders guidelines that was made available on a website aimed at French college students 65 . Results were similar, with a small minority of people reporting that they used the information to assist someone, including encouraging professional help.…”

Análisis de los Programas educativos sobre alfabetización en salud mental. Revisión documental.

“…La tipología de los programas varía, existen: talleres presenciales (Campos et al, 2018;Hart et al, 2018;Riebschleger et al, 2019), intervenciones online (Lu et al, 2016;Kutcher, Wei y Morgan, 2016), difusión de información (Cabassa et al, 2015;Melioli et al, 2018), intervención multifacética (Reavley et al, 2014); programa psicoeducativo (Gladstone et al, 2014); intervenciones breves (Hui et al, 2019;Ojio et al, 2019); intervenciones psicosociales (Fraser y Pakenham, 2008). La formación está impartida por los docentes habituales o por especialistas de salud mental (universitarios o profesionales).…”