Meta-Analysis on School-Based Intervention to Enhance Student Mental Health and Wellbeing

Abstract

The increasing mental health problems, especially on children and adolescence, has prompted WHO to launch the mental health action plan 2013 - 2020. One recommendation is that mental health intervention began in children and implemented through school-based mental health intervention. Effectiveness of the intervention is still doubted by some parties. This meta-analysis study presents of the literature review that has examined the effectivity of school-based intervention to enhance student mental health. This study conducted on 11 research articles that contain 25 experimental studies on the various forms of school-based interventions on mental health and wellbeing. The study included 8242 students. The results showed the hypothesis that school-based interventions have an impact on mental health can be accepted.