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Article History

Received: 29 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. The Kenya– National Adolescent Mental Health Survey (K-NAMHS) received approval from the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Ethics 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). The Indonesia– National Adolescent Mental Health Survey (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). The Viet Nam Adolescent Mental Health Survey (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.