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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.

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.


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)


Links to other research

Other research from the UCL Centre for the Health of Women, Children, and Adolescents 

Other research from IGH on Adolescent health, Mental health, and Participatory Learning and Action

Other research from IGH in the UK