Mental health promotion programming in schools and community settings is an important part of a comprehensive mental health strategy. The goal of this study was to identify and explore meaningful classes of youth based on their pre- and post-intervention depression symptoms scores with 722 youth involved in a 15-week healthy relationships and mental health promotion program. We utilized latent class growth analysis to identify depression class trajectories, controlling for group clustering effects. A three-class solution identified high decreasing, moderate stable, and low stable trajectories. Gender, age, and reported experience of bullying victimization predicted trajectory class membership. The low stable class trajectory was associated with the highest positive mental health, followed by the moderate stable and the high decreasing trajectories. These results suggest that youth with the highest depression scores showed significant improvement in symptomatology over the course of the program.

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健康关系计划中青年人抑郁和积极心理健康的变化

在学校和社区环境中开展心理健康促进计划是全面心理健康策略的重要组成部分。这项研究的目的是根据干预前后抑郁症状的得分，对722名参与15周健康关系和精神健康促进计划的青年进行识别和探索，以探讨有意义的青年类别。我们利用潜伏类增长分析来识别抑郁症类轨迹，控制群体聚类效应。一个三类解决方案可确定高下降轨迹，中稳定轨迹和低稳定轨迹。性别，年龄和欺凌受害的报道经验可预测轨迹班级成员身份。稳定的班级轨迹低与积极的心理健康程度最高相关，其次是中等的稳定轨迹和高下降的轨迹。