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World J Psychiatry. Jan 19, 2026; 16(1): 112756
Published online Jan 19, 2026. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v16.i1.112756
Published online Jan 19, 2026. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v16.i1.112756
Construction of a mental health literacy evaluation index system for adolescents with mental disorders
Ying-Qiong Ge, Xiao-Shuang Ouyang, Zheng-Min Zhu, Bi-Can Tan, Xiao-Jian Jiang, College of Nursing, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, Hunan Province, China
Co-first authors: Ying-Qiong Ge and Xiao-Shuang Ouyang.
Author contributions: Ge YQ and Ouyang XS were responsible for conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, software, visualization, writing original draft, writing review and editing as the co-first authors of the paper; Zhu ZM was responsible for methodology, supervision, writing review and editing; Tan BC was responsible for supervision, validation, writing review and editing; Jian XJ was responsible for conceptualization, funding acquisition, resources, supervision, validation, writing review and editing; all of the authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript to be published.
Supported by Inter Disciplinary Direction Cultivation Project of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, No. 2025JC0103; 2025 Hunan Province Science and Technology Innovation Plan Project, No. 2025RC9012; 2022 "Unveiling and Leading" Project of Discipline Construction at Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, No. 22JBZ044; Changsha Municipal Natural Science Foundation, No. kq2402174; and Hunan Provincial Science Popularization Fund Project, No. 2025ZK4223.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Hunan Brain Hospital (No. 2021K056) and complied with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent statement: All participants and main guardians provided written informed consent after they were informed of the purpose of the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement – checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement – checklist of items.
Data sharing statement: The data cannot be disclosed due to the particularity of the survey population. The data can be obtained from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Xiao-Jian Jiang, MD, Director, College of Nursing, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, No. 300 Xueshi Road, Hanpu Science and Education Park, Yuelu District, Changsha 410208, Hunan Province, China. yzjxj726@163.com
Received: August 5, 2025
Revised: September 30, 2025
Accepted: November 5, 2025
Published online: January 19, 2026
Processing time: 147 Days and 21.1 Hours
Revised: September 30, 2025
Accepted: November 5, 2025
Published online: January 19, 2026
Processing time: 147 Days and 21.1 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: The evaluation index system for mental health literacy of adolescents with mental disorders, developed in this study, mainly included 4 first-level indicators, 10 second-level indicators, and 52 third-level indicators, such as basic knowledge concept, mental health attitude, mental health behavior, and mental health skills. The system was designed to evaluate the mental health literacy of adolescents with mental disorders from a multidimensional perspective.