Most cited CAMH paper #10 of 25: Implementation quality of whole‐school mental health promotion and students’ academic performance

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Posted on 7 February 2020

Tags: Primary school, School-based interventions… Show all

Populations: Primary school
Interventions: School-based interventions, Whole school approaches
Publication Types: Implementation research
Geography: Australia

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To celebrate the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal’s 25th anniversary, we have released the 25 top cited articles of all time*! All papers are freely available online for you to read.

Number 10 is…

Implementation quality of whole‐school mental health promotion and students’ academic performance
Katherine L. Dix, Phillip T. Sle,e Michael J. Lawson, John P. Keeves
Child and Adolescent Mental Health First Published: 31 May 2011

Key Practitioner Message:

Given the known relationship between student academic achievement and mental health, many nations are mounting school‐based mental health interventions: however, the quality of program implementation remains a concern
The Australian KidsMatter primary school mental health intervention enabled the development of an Implementation Index allowing schools to be grouped into low‐ to high‐ implementing schools
The quality of implementation of KidsMatter appears to be positively associated with the level of student academic achievement, equivalent to 6 months more schooling by Year 7, over and above any influence of socioeconomic background

*as od December 2019