Mental-Health Screening of Teens at School Gets Results

The researchers acknowledged certain limitations of their study, including the lack of a control group and the potential for selection bias. "It is likely that parent refusal, related to stigma and other societal factors, diminished the rate of student participation," they wrote. "Furthermore, beyond the limitation that the modest participation rate poses to the generalizability of the sample, it also points to the constraints of the intervention as a substantial portion of adolescents does not have access to its potential benefits."

The researchers had no relevant financial conflicts to disclose.