Fine, Shoshanna L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9767-7859
Ramaiya, Astha
Li, Mengmeng
Wahdi, Amirah Ellyza
Wilopo, Siswanto Agus
Loi, Vu Manh
Vinh, Nguyen Duc
Wado, Yohannes Dibaba
Maravilla, Joemer C.
Scott, James G.
Erskine, Holly E. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3119-9211
Blum, Robert Wm
Funding for this research was provided by:
The University of Queensland in America (Through support from Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company)
Article History
Received: 1 November 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 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). 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.
: This article has been published as part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Volume 19 Supplement S1, 2025: Findings from the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys: Factors influencing adolescent mental health in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The full contents of the supplement are available at .