Abstract :
[en] The Measuring Mental Health among Adolescents and Young People at the Population level (MMAPP) initiative, initiated in 2018 and developed by UNICEF and partners, aims to address the critical lack of reliable data and tools for assessing adolescent and youth mental health at the population level. By improving the availability, reliability, and
validity of such measures, MMAPP equips stakeholders to make informed decisions across critical areas of programmes, policy, and advocacy to transform youth mental health locally and globally. This MMAPP toolkit, developed as part of the initiative, includes the MMAPP questionnaire to measure adolescents’ and young people’s mental health, mental health indicators for standardized reporting of population-level prevalence rates, a set of operational guidelines and protocols to support measure adaptation and data collection, and associated implementation resources and templates. Together, these tools support cultural adaptation, validation, and
interpretation to generate contextually appropriate, reliable data on adolescents’ and young people’s mental health needs. This adaptability is a core feature of the toolkit. By accounting for local variation in culture, language, and context, this toolkit aims to ensure the quality, reliability, and relevance of data collection, interpretation, and use of
the data generated from MMAPP.
