{"doc_desc":{"title":"Youth Well-Being: Strengthening mental health and human capital in a social programme for vulnerable young people in Colombia"},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"10.16909-dataset-67","title":"Youth Well-Being: Strengthening mental health and human capital in a social programme for vulnerable young people in Colombia","alternate_title":"YWB","translated_title":"BienEstar Joven"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Mauricio Avendano","affiliation":"Unisant\u00e9, Center for Primary Care and Public Health & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland"},{"name":"Martha Escobar Lux","affiliation":"Foundation Santa Fe de Bogota"},{"name":"Fabio Idrobo Bonilla","affiliation":"Foundation Santa Fe de Bogota"},{"name":"Armando N. Meier","affiliation":"University of Basel"},{"name":"Omar Y. Vargas Rodriguez","affiliation":"Government of Colombia Department of Social Protection, Colombia"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Ricardo Araya","affiliation":"King's College London Center for Global Mental Health Institure for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuro, United Kingdom","email":"","role":"Partner"},{"name":"Naomi Koerner","affiliation":"Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada","email":"","role":"Partner"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Nathalie Monnet","abbr":"","affiliation":"Unisant\u00e9, Center for Primary Care and Public Health & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland","role":"researcher, statistician, data manager"},{"name":"Cl\u00e9mence Kieny","abbr":"","affiliation":"Unisant\u00e9, Center for Primary Care and Public Health & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland","role":"researcher"},{"name":"Andrea Carolina Bell Tocancipa","abbr":"","affiliation":"Foundation Sante Fe de Bogota","role":"coordinator"}],"copyright":"(c) 2026, Unisant\u00e9, University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Swiss National Science Foundation","abbr":"SNSF","role":""},{"name":"Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation","abbr":"SDC","role":""}],"grant_no":"213267 213267"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Youth Well-Being secretariat","affiliation":"","email":"ywb@unisante.ch","uri":""},{"name":"Documentation and data unit (UDD)","affiliation":"Unisant\u00e9, University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland","email":"udd.data@unisante.ch","uri":"https:\/\/www.unisante.ch\/fr\/formation-recherche\/bibliotheque"}]},"series_statement":{"series_info":"Wave 1: screening and baseline surveys (February-March 2025)\nWave 2: follow-up wave 1 (June-July 2025)\nWave 3: follow-up wave 2 (September-October 2025)\nWave 4: follow-up wave 3 (December 2025 - January 2026)"},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1: Edited, de-identified dataset for public distribution.","version_date":"2026-08-31"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Mental health","vocab":"","uri":""}],"abstract":"A longitudinal study of mental health and human capital among socioeconomically vulnerable young people enrolled in tertiary education in Colombia. The data provided here come from repeated surveys of low-income higher-education students participating in the national conditional cash-transfer programme (Renta Joven \/ J\u00f3venes en Acci\u00f3n). The survey instruments capture validated mental health symptom measures \u2014 including depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), post-traumatic stress (PC-PTSD-5), and behavioural activation (BADS-SF) \u2014 alongside sociodemographic characteristics, educational trajectories and economic expectations. Nested within this population is a preregistered randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of a self-guided transdiagnostic digital mental health platform (delivered alone or with peer support) on mental health, educational attainment and human-capital outcomes among low-income students.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2025\/02\/04","end":"2025\/03\/09","cycle":"Wave 1"},{"start":"2025\/03\/26","end":"2025\/06\/12","cycle":"Intervention"},{"start":"2025\/06\/12","end":"2025\/07\/28","cycle":"Wave 2"},{"start":"2025\/09\/02","end":"2025\/10\/19","cycle":"Wave 3"},{"start":"2025\/12\/02","end":"2026\/01\/30","cycle":"Wave 4"}],"nation":[{"name":"Colombia","abbreviation":"COL"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"- Individual-level surveys, specifically, low-income students enrolled in tertiary education who participate in the Renta Joven programme.\n- Intervention information (treatment assignement), and related platform logs\n- Administrative records","universe":"Low-income students enrolled in tertiary (technical, technological, and university) education receiving a conditional cash transfer in the social program Renta Joven","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The surveys cover the mental health, human-capital, and behavioural characteristics of low-income students enrolled in tertiary (technical, technological, and university) education. Instruments were administered across a baseline survey, and repeated follow-up waves, with the core thematic modules repeated longitudinally to track change over time. The scope spans the following themes:\n- Mental health symptoms. Validated symptom scales for depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), and post-traumatic stress (PC-PTSD-5), behavioural activation (BADS-SF), suicide-risk screening.\n- Broader well-being, self-reported health and sleep. Life satisfaction, sleep satisfaction \/ insomnia and its impact on daily functioning.\n- Mental health attitudes and service use. Self-stigma of seeking help (SSOSH), lifetime mental health diagnosis, recent help-seeking and treatment received, and beliefs about the effectiveness of psychological therapy and digital mental health tools.\n- Health-related quality of life. EQ-5D-5L, healthcare use.\n- Educational enrolment and trajectory. Type of institution and programme, enrolment continuity, and reasons for interrupting or leaving studies.\n- Educational expectations and investment. Expected cumulative GPA and self-reported educational effort (e.g., missed, skipped, or late arrivals to class).\n- Labour-market expectations. Expected future earnings following graduation.\n- Economic preferences and personality traits. Patience and time-discounting choices, self-control (Brief Self-Control Scale), and risk preferences.\n- Sociodemographic and household characteristics. Demographic and household background captured at screening.\nAdditionally, related study information are provided through intervention-related information and administrative records including additional educational information of the studied population."},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"- *Sample frame and recruitment*. The study population consists of low-income young people who are beneficiaries of Colombia's Renta Joven conditional cash-transfer programme and enrolled in tertiary education (technical, technological, or university programmes). The sample frame was drawn from Renta Joven beneficiaries, who were invited to participate; approximately 360,000 individuals were invited and more than 70,000 responded (partially or in full) to the screening survey. The sample is therefore not a probability sample designed to be representative of the general Colombian population; it represents Renta Joven beneficiaries enrolled in tertiary education who responded to the invitation and met the eligibility criteria.\n\n- *Eligibility and screening*. Eligibility was established through a screening survey and required: informed consent, membership in Renta Joven, age 18 and above, current enrolment in a higher-education programme, access to an internet-enabled device, and interest in the study. Of screening respondents, 33,683 were eligible. Eligible individuals were invited to a baseline survey (22,850 responses; 18,999 eligible). Before randomisation, participants were further excluded if they did not complete the baseline survey or completed it too quickly (fewer than four minutes), if they were asymptomatic (based on a minimum symptom threshold), or if they were flagged as high suicide risk.\n\n- *Randomisation, stratification, and arms*. A total of 14,688 eligible participants were randomised in equal shares (7,344 per arm) to the treatment and control conditions. \n\n- *Level of representation and design notes*. Estimates are representative of the eligible, consenting study population defined above and are not weighted to the national population; no sampling weights are applied. In waves 2 to 4, because inclusion required baseline symptomatology above a screening threshold, asymptomatic individuals are excluded by design, and the sample over-represents individuals with elevated mental health symptoms relative to the full beneficiary population.\n\n- *Non-response, attrition, and replacement*. Three follow-up surveys were administered (wave 2=follow-up 1 at 0 months, n = 9,719 complete; wave 3=follow-up 2 at 3 months, n = 6,472 complete; wave 3=follow-up 3 at 6 months, n= 7,185).","coll_mode":["Internet [int]"],"research_instrument":"Questionnaires were conducted in Spanish in REDCap. These include:\n- *Screening and baseline questionnaires* (February\u2013March 2025): pre-intervention, including eligibility criteria, demographics, and baseline mental health and educational measures\n- *Follow-up questionnaire 1* (June\u2013July 2025): follow-up mental health and educational measures immediately post-intervention\n- *Follow-up questionnaire 2* (September\u2013October 2025): follow-up mental health and educational measures 3-month post-intervention\n- *Follow-up questionnaire 3* (December 2025 \u2013 January 2026): follow-up mental health and educational measures 6-month post-intervention, plus cost-utility-related questions (EQ-5D-5L and healthcare use)","sources":[{"name":"","origin":"","characteristics":""}],"coll_situation":"A pilot study took place in Fall 2024.","cleaning_operations":"After screening\/baseline completion, duplicated records were removed based on identifying information including the ID card number (c\u00e9dula in Spanish). All participants were also cross-checked with Renta Joven administrative database to comply with eligibility criteria."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"- *Non-response, attrition, and replacement*. Three follow-up surveys were administered (wave 2=follow-up 1 at 0 months, n = 9,719 complete; wave 3=follow-up 2 at 3 months, n = 6,472 complete; wave 3=follow-up 3 at 6 months, n= 7,185)."}},"data_access":{"dataset_availability":{"access_place":"Unisant\u00e9 Data repository : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16909\/dataset\/67","access_place_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16909\/dataset\/63","status":"The dataset is available on request for research purpose only.\nTo get access to data, the following procedure must be followed:\n\u00b7 Create an account (Login \u2192 Register)\n\u00b7 Go to the Data Catalog and click on the study of interest (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16909\/dataset\/67)\n\u00b7 Once on the study page, click on the tab \"Data Access\"\n\u00b7 Fill in the application form and submit\n\u00b7 The request will then be reviewed by Unisant\u00e9. If accepted, a Data transfer agreement will be created\n\u00b7 Sign the Data transfert agreement\n\nImportant: Before submitting a request, please check whether the data is at all useful for your project. The codebooks with the corresponding information are filed under Documentation and do not require registration."},"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"All requests for data use will be reviewed before approval.","required":"yes","form_no":"","form_uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Mauricio Avendano","affiliation":"Unisant\u00e9, Center for Primary Care and Public Health & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland","email":"Avendano Pabon MauricioMauricio.Avendano-Pabon@unisante.ch","uri":"Mauricio.Avendano-Pabon@unisante.ch"},{"name":"Nathalie Monnet","affiliation":"Unisant\u00e9, Center for Primary Care and Public Health & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland","email":"nathalie.monnet@unisante.ch","uri":"nathalie.monnet@unisante.ch"}],"cit_req":"Avendano, Mauricio; Monnet, Nathalie; Meier, Armando N.; Escobar Lux, Martha; Ibrobo Bonilla, Fabio; Vargas Rodriguez, Omar Yesid. The Youth Well-Being (BienEstar Joven) Study: Datasets. Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Version 1.0 of the licensed dataset (2026), provided by the Unisant\u00e9 Research Data Repository. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16909\/dataset\/67.","conditions":"This dataset is submitted to the Federal Act on Research involving Human Beings (HRA). Therefore, an ethical approval will be required to use this dataset.\nThe Data transfer agreement must be signed before releasing the dataset","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"Humans"}]}