Children and young people’s experiences of completing mental health and wellbeing measures for research: learning from two school-based pilot projects

Table 1 Measures completed by participants

Construct	Measure	Measurement framework
Construct	Measure	RP1	RP2 8–11	RP2 11+
Mental wellbeing	Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale [95]	✓
Internalising/externalising difficulties, prosocial behaviour	Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [96]	✓
Emotion regulation	Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire—Adolescent Short Form emotion regulation subscale [97]	✓	✓	✓
Perceived stress	Four-item Perceived Stress Scale [98]	✓
Protective factors	Culturally adapted Student Resilience Survey subscales [73, 99]	✓	✓^a	✓^a
Young carer status	Definition of young carer status with a binary yes/no response option	✓
Positive wellbeing	Huebner life satisfaction scale [100]		✓	✓
Emotional problems	Short moods and feelings questionnaire [101]		✓	✓
Behavioural problems	Me and my feelings [102]		✓	✓
Peer victimisation	KIDSCREEN-52 [103]		✓	✓
Attitudes to help-seeking	Attitudes to help-seeking [104]			✓
Service use	Short client service receipt inventory—service use subscales [105]		✓	✓
Attitudes to mental illness	Attitudes toward mental illness (stigma) questionnaire [49]			✓
Quality of life	Child health utility 9D [106]		✓	✓
Mental health first aid	Mental Health First Aid interventions from Mental Health First Aid Intentions and Behaviours [107]			✓

RP1: Research Project 1 (Wellbeing Measurement Framework); RP2: Research Project 2 (Education for Wellbeing)
^a School connection and problem solving subscales only

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