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Mental Health: A Pain That Resides in the Mind
The experiences of young people in East Asia and Pacific
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This study engaged with 582 young people, of these 352 were girls, in four countries to understand their insights, experiences, and recommendations, and explore how the resulting findings can be channeled into policy, programming, and professional practice across East Asia and Pacific.
The Young and Resilient Research Centre (Y&R) at Western Sydney University collaborated with organizations in Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to ask adolescent girls and boys how they perceive mental health in their day-to-day environment; what are the face-to-face and online drivers of poor mental health; and what young people perceive as the barriers and enablers of their mental health.
