supporting adolescent emotional health in schools a mixed methods study of student and staff views in england支持青少年心理健康在学校一个混合方法的研究在英国学生和员工的观点.pdf

BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Supporting adolescent emotional health in schools: a mixed methods study of student and staff views in England Judi Kidger*, Jenny L Donovan, Lucy Biddle, Rona Campbell and David Gunnell Address: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39, Whatley Road, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK Email: Judi Kidger* - judi.kidger@bristol.ac.uk; Jenny L Donovan - jenny.donovan@bristol.ac.uk; Lucy Biddle - lucy.biddle@bristol.ac.uk; Rona Campbell - rona.campbell@bristol.ac.uk; David Gunnell - D.J.Gunnell@bristol.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 31 October 2009 Received: 19 January 2009 Accepted: 31 October 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:403 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-403 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/403 © 2009 Kidger et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Schools have been identified as an important place in which to support adolescent emotional health, although evidence as to which interventions are effective remains limited. Relatively little is known about student and staff views regarding current school-based emotional health provision and what they would like to see in the future, and this is what this study explored. Metho