Education for Wellbeing Team, and Ashworth, E (2025) Education for Wellbeing: Technical Report. Technical Report. Department for Education.

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Abstract

Mental health problems in young people have been increasing over a period of around 15 years (Newlove et al., 2023) and appear to have been exacerbated by the pandemic (Mansfield et al., 2022). Due to this, there is a need for programmes that prevent these difficulties from developing or to reduce levels of emerging mental health problems. Education for Wellbeing was a research programme commissioned by the Department for Education to evaluate pioneering ways of supporting the mental wellbeing of pupils, by implementing and evaluating five different mental health and wellbeing interventions for pupils in mainstream primary and secondary schools in England. Across the duration of the trial, 47,625 pupils from 513 schools were recruited, making Education for Wellbeing one of the largest randomised controlled research trials of mental health within schools in England. The programme was split into two trials: AWARE (Approaches for Wellbeing and Mental Health Literacy: Research in Education) tested in secondary school settings and INSPIRE (INterventions in Schools for Promoting Well-being: Research in Education), tested in both primary and secondary school settings. The aim of the AWARE trial was to assess the impact of two interventions that have already been developed and found to be effective in other countries (Kutcher et al., 2015; Wasserman et al., 2015) in order to see if they might be effective in improving mental health related outcomes in children and young people in English schools. The aim of the INSPIRE trial was to assess the impact of three interventions, which were developed specifically for this trial, but were designed to reflect the types of mental health promotion and prevention activity typically used in schools. The programme was conducted in three waves (2018, 2019, 2022). However, Wave 2 post-intervention data collection was interrupted by Covid 19 and therefore was not included in the primary outcome analysis. For this reason, the numbers presented in this report focus on Waves 1 and 3, with data for Wave 2 presented separately in the appendix.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
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Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	Department for Education
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2025 15:11
Last Modified:	11 Feb 2025 15:11
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25613

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