Stress coping behaviours (CISS-SFC)
At the time of writing, there is limited number of studies examining the evidence on online and app-based mental health interventions’ effects on coping behaviour changes. Our study is one of the first to provide evidence on this subject and found that the use of an app-based mental health intervention, the Coping Camp, was not effective in changing stress coping strategies. This finding is in line with several studies that suggested face-to-face interventions were not effective in changing stress coping strategies among adolescents [Notably, we found that gender had significant effects on stress and coping behaviours. First, compared with male, females were under significantly more stress. Second, gender had significant effects on the coping styles. Compared with males, female participants used significantly more emotion- and avoidance-oriented coping strategies. Also, female participants used less task-oriented coping strategies. These findings are in line with previous research [