Wado, Yohannes Dibaba https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-6116
Njeri, Anne
Odunga, Sally Atieno
Akuku, Isaiah
Wahdi, Amirah Ellyza
Fine, Shoshanna L.
Ramaiya, Astha
Li, Mengmeng
Loi, Vu Manh
Maravilla, Joemer C.
Scott, James G.
Erskine, Holly E.
Kabiru, Caroline W.
Funding for this research was provided by:
The University of Queensland in America (TUQIA) (N/A)
Article History
Received: 30 October 2023
Accepted: 8 April 2025
First Online: 31 July 2025
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys (NAMHS) was granted by the University of Queensland (UQ) Human Research Ethics Committee (approval no. 2019001268). Additionally, each in-country NAMHS team sought and was granted approval from their relevant in-country ethics committee or institutional review board for their respective survey. K-NAMHS received approval from the AMREF Health Africa’s Ethical and Scientific Review Committee (approval no. P654/2019). Further, the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NASCOSTI) granted the research permit for conducting K-NAMHS in Kenya (license no. NACOSTI/P/19/837). I-NAMHS received approval from the Medical and Health Research Ethics Committee at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) (approval no. KE/FK/1212/EC/2019), along with approval to conduct a national population-based household survey from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Indonesia (approval no. 440.04/835/Polpum). V-NAMHS received approval from the Ethical Review Board for Biomedical Research at Hanoi University of Public Health (approval no. 499/2019/YTCC-HD3). The UQ NAMHS team and each in-country NAMHS team worked collaboratively to ensure that the content and principles of the in-country ethical approvals were consistent with the overarching ethical approval.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.