PRIDE

Overview

PRIDE (PRemIum for aDolEscents) is an adolescent mental health research program that was conducted in India, a country that is home to the largest number of adolescents in the world. The aims were to develop and evaluate a suite of psychosocial interventions targeting emotional problems in school-based adolescents.  PRIDE was implemented from 2016-2022 in low-income schools in the state of Goa and the national capital of New Delhi as a collaboration between the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Harvard Medical School with Sangath, the primary implementation partner in India. 

Rationale

Anxiety, depression, and disruptive behaviours impact youth globally, yet there is scarce research on the effectiveness of interventions outside of high-income countries. Evidence-based interventions tested in controlled research trials may also be difficult to scale due to resource constraints and a narrow focus on specific mental disorders, even though mental health problems commonly co-occur and may not fit rigid diagnostic categories. This award looked to address these challenges by developing and evaluating a community-based transdiagnostic stepped care model (i.e., relevant to a variety of common emotional and behavioural problems), which could be delivered by non-experts in low-resource global contexts.

Partner/s

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

• Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA