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Developing & testing the feasibility of a sports-based mental health promotion intervention for adolescents in Nepal: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Project Summary

Mental health promotion interventions that improve mental wellbeing, self-efficacy, self-esteem and emotion regulation, are effective in improving adolescent mental health in low-and middle-income countries and could be more cost-effective than treatment approaches.

We will develop and test the feasibility of an intervention that uses sport to promote mental health among adolescents aged 12-19 in Nepal.

We will use a community engagement approach to intervention development, which seeks to foster respectful relationships between the researchers and the community, and build legitimacy for the research.

Our research will inform a full-scale evaluation of the intervention, whilst expanding global knowledge on sports-based mental health interventions and building a sustainable research platform in Nepal.


Key Project Information

Dates: November 2021 - February 2024

Principal Investigators: Dr Joanna Morrison (IGH Lead)

Dr Kelly Rose-Clarke

Dr Nagendra Luitel

Partners: TPO Nepal

Kings College London

Location: UK & Nepal

Funding: MRC

Contact: joanna.morrison@ucl.ac.uk


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Sports-based Mental Health Promotion for Adolescents

Mental health promotion interventions that improve mental wellbeing, self-efficacy, self-esteem and emotion regulation, are effective in improving adolescent mental health in low-and middle-income countries and could be more cost-effective than treatment approaches. This film describes research to develop and test the feasibility of an intervention that uses sport to promote mental health among adolescents aged 12-19 in rural Nepal.

Publications

 Development and testing the feasibility of a sports-based mental health promotion intervention in Nepal: a protocol for a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial (2023)