„Crazy? So what!“ A school programme to promote mental health and reduce stigma – results of a pilot study

Objective: The study aims to evaluate the health-promoting and stigma-reducing effect of the German school-based programme „Crazy? So what!“ .Design. A quasi-experimental longitudinal control-study was carried out with assessments one week prior to the school programme (t1), immediately after it (t2) and three months later (t3). Setting: Two hundred and ten Year 9 and 10 students (aged 13–18 years) were surveyed in four schools in Saxony, Germany. Method Data analysis was done descriptively based on frequency distributions. Random effects regression models for unbalanced panel data were used to estimate the chan…