Urban youth in Uganda often face significant mental health challenges due to socio-economic pressures and limited access to mental healthcare services. A quasi-experimental design was employed with pre- and post-training assessments using a validated MHFA curriculum. Participants were randomly assigned to either the intervention group receiving MHFA training or a control group without such training. MHFA training significantly improved participants' stress management skills, reducing perceived stress by an average of 15% (95% CI: -20% to -10%) compared to baseline levels. The MHFA training programme was effective in enhancing urban youth mental well-being and could serve as a scalable intervention strategy for mental health promotion. Schools should integrate MHFA training into their curricula, and policymakers should support initiatives that provide mental health education to young people. Mental Health First Aid, Urban Youth, Mental Well-being, Uganda Treatment effect was estimated with logit (pᵢ) =₀+^ Xᵢ, and uncertainty reported using confidence-interval based inference.
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