Massive Mental Health Screening Using Smartphones in 24 Pre-graduate Education Centers in Mexico City: TEDUCA Survey Protocol

Massive Mental Health Screening Using Smartphones in 24 Pre-graduate Education Centers in Mexico City: TEDUCA Survey Protocol

The objective of this study is to make a massive suicide risk and social behavior assessment in 24 pre-graduate education centers in Mexico City (approximately 30,000 students aged between 15 and 22 years), taking also into account other outcomes such as depression, anxiety, alcohol and drugs. For this, an app for Smartphone (MeMind) or a web platform (www.MeMind.net) will be used in which the participants will take a self-administered questionnaire, composed of several psychometric instruments.

Our main hypothesis is that identification of suicide risk in the Mexico City's student community is feasible using their own smartphones and can serve as both a population screening tool for early specialist referral, as well as a tool for evaluating social behavior strategies and their relation to suicide behavior.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Use a smartphone as personal or computer terminals enabled by the municipality of Milpa Alta or educational services.
2. Be able to understand the nature, purpose and methodology of the study.
3. Accept participation in the study and check the corresponding box in the app to verify that the informed consent has been expressly given.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Subject deprived of liberty (by judicial or administrative decision)
2. Subject protected by law (guardianship or conservatorship)