Emphasis on Mental Health Education for Aged 18 to 30 to Improve Well-being in One-month

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Part B: Research Support
PICOT Question
Mental illness is often linked to societal stressors such as hardship in life and economic constraints. However, a plethora of studies have noted the importance of education in mental illness spread. In this light, the PICOT question changed and focused on understanding the significance of mental education in suppressing the spread of mental illness. The bone of contention was whether mental health awareness could exhaustively address the problem of mental illness among patients aged 18 and 30. The clinical question of interest in the PICOT format is, does an emphasis on mental health education among adults aged between 18 and 30 compared to non-sensitization lead to improved mental well-being over a one-month timeframe?
The population of interest (P): young patients with mental illness aged between 18 and 30
Intervention (I): Mental health awareness and sensitization
Comparison (C): No mental health awareness
Outcome (O): Improve patients’ reported cases of mental illness
Time (T): One-month timeframe
Evidence-Based Practice Objectives
* To understand the literacy level of the society regarding mental health
* To understand the extent to which care providers understand the scope of mental health
* To understand the primary effects of lack of mental awareness among teenagers and youths in the society
Search Strategy
The research was actualized virtually with a search strategy informed by the following pairs of keywords:
1 Mental illness, impact, disorder management
2 The role of education, impact, mental illness management
3 Education tools, mental disorders, disorder management
4 Mental illness management, African-Americans, qualitative research
5 Mental disorder management, blacks, quantitative research
The keywords were entered into different search engines. The primary databases used included Google Scholar, science direct, Pub Med, Medline, Biomedical central, America Psychological Association (APA), and CINAHL. It was envisioned that the search would return hundreds of sources having different profiles, some of which may have minimal relevance if included in the review. In this vein, the inclusion and exclusion criteria were adopted to ensure the sources used are valid and have relevant information regarding the issue in question. The research yielded 50 sources, but this research utilized ten sources that met the inclusion and exclusion search criteria. This criterion was guided by the rules below:
* Peer-reviewed sources were considered for inclusion. Blogs, newspapers, trade publications, and magazines were excluded.
* The included articles must contain both primary and secondary research. General discussions and theoretical sources were discarded.
* The included sources must be an article with full-text information. Research abstracts and summaries were discarded from the search.
* Sources were prioritized within the past five years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021). Older articles were discarded because of the ever-changing medical world.
Summarization of the Sources
Viinikainen et al. (2018) investig...