3.1.4. Sweden
RECRUITMENT
In Sweden, a school campaign was conducted, which reached out to 1081 students and 354 school staff in twelve schools. In the first intervention wave, Sweden adopted a blended delivery approach. In the second wave, with COVID-19 restrictions underway, all recruitment was conducted via advertisements and videos on social media, reaching out to over 100,000 young people and professionals. With these considerable efforts and resources, the research team was able to recruit a few potential participants per week, but if the young people had to wait for joining a group they dropped out. The priority was therefore to create and start groups as soon as possible, and a decision was made to wait with the control group to make sure that there would be at least some groups in Sweden. During the pandemic, Sweden adopted a fully online approach with the use of the ME-WE mobile app and supported by the Zoom video-conferencing system.