Eksis: a Website-based for Mental Health Promotion Platform to Enhance Adolescents’ Resilience
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Adolescent mental health poses a significant challenge worldwide.According to WHO data from 2019, the global prevalence of mental health conditions before the pandemic was 13%, or approximately 970 million people living with mental health issues, with 52.4% being female and 47.6% male.According to the Indonesia-National Mental Health Survey (I-NAMHS) in 2022, the prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents aged 10-17 years in 34 provinces in Indonesia was 34.9%.Approximately 11 million adolescents in Indonesia experience mental disorders, placing the country in the category of a mental health emergency for adolescents.This alarming prevalence places Indonesia in a mental health emergency for its youth.Among these adolescents, 52.58% are aged 10-13 years, and 47.42% are aged 14-17 years, with no significant gender differences in risk levels.Resilience is a part of mental health that refers to successful adaptation to stress.Adolescents with high resilience tend to have lower risk of having mental health problems.This study aims to develop the EKSIS Program, a community-based health promotion initiative designed to enhance adolescent resilience in stress management through a website-based platform.The program enables adolescents to access mental health resources, receive psychological support, and engage in tailored activities to build resilience.Grounded in the theory of internal self-resiliency, the study adopts a participatory action research design with a multi-method sequential exploratory approach, comprising three cycles.Cycle 1 involves investigating mental health problems in youth using intervention mapping and phenomenological methods with 18 informants.Cycle 2 focuses on developing instruments, content modules, the EKSIS Program, and digital media using intervention mapping and design thinking approaches.Cycle 3 evaluates website usability acceptance in adolescents.The study involved 60 adolescents aged 15-18 years from SMA Sooko Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia.This research provides a foundation for developing adolescent mental health programs tailored to their specific needs.The proposed program aims to effectively and sustainably enhance resilience and stress management among adolescents in Mojokerto.This article focuses on the development of the EKSIS website which is used in the program.
Language: English
Topic: Resilience and Mental Health
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410355073