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Measuring Youth Mental Health Vulnerability Across Communities: Development and Validation of ThriveAtlas

2026-01-28 public and global health Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveYouth mental health is shaped by interacting individual, relational, and structural factors that vary across communities, yet few tools integrate these drivers into youth-specific, geographically granular measures for decision-making. This study describes the development and preliminary validation of ThriveAtlasTM, a geographically granular index designed to identify factors that prevent youth from thriving. MethodsThriveAtlas was developed through a multi-step process to identify, ope...

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