Mental Health Training Based of Community Action to Improve Mental Health in Adolescent

Introduction: Mental health is a serious problem that needs to be addressed immediately, especially among adolescent, where it has become a major disease and can cause deep suffering for sufferers and those around them. This research aims to analyze the effect of community action-based mental health improvement training on changes in adolescent mental health. Methods: This research is a type of pre-experimental research with a one group pretest post-test design. The sampling used was simple random sampling, resulting in a sample size of 171 respondents aged 16-24 years and who had previously participated in the training activities. Results: The results of the study showed that there was a change in the mental health condition of adolescent, namely that the majority of adolescent experienced flourishing mental health, at pre-intervention it was 50.9% and after the intervention it was 53.8%. The data obtained was analyzed using the Wilcoxon statistical test with the result ρ=0.000. Conclusion: These results can be concluded that there is a strong impact on training efforts to improve mental health based on community action on changes in adolescent mental health.