MEST : A School- Based Health Literacy Intervention Trial

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Conditions studied: Health Literacy, Adolescent Health

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the MEST work strategy in upper secondary schools. MEST is a school based, health promoting intervention delivered by school health services and designed to strengthen students' health literacy and mental well being. The study assesses whether implementation of the MEST work strategy results in improved health literacy and mental well being compared with usual school health services. This study is a cluster randomized superiority trial in which upper secondary schools are assigned either to an intervention group implementing the MEST work strategy or to a control group continuing with school health services as usual. Student reported outcomes are collected using digitally administered questionnaires during school hours at baseline, prior to initiation of the intervention, and at 4 and 9 months following intervention initiation (end of the school year).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07601815

Run by

Norwegian Institute of Public Health

People needed

1800

Starts

2026-08-17

Expected to finish

2027-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-22

Who can join

Age: 16 and older, up to 24. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Students 16-24 years
• Students enrolled in upper secondary school classes
• Provided informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Students <16 years and > 24 years

Where it is running

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) — Levanger, Trøndelag, Norway

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