Mental health literacy of prospective brides in marriage preparedness: Scoping review

Eka Y.I. Nurmala, Mahmudah Mahmudah, Arief Hargono, An N. Fithri, Dian Hanifah

Abstract

Mental well-being is inherent to one's overall health and societal harmony, empowering individuals to achieve their full potential and establish meaningful connections with others. Mental health literacy will thus possibly improve the preparation of prospective brides towards marriage, so that it will be lead to a healthy and happy marriage. Mental health literacy will thus possibly improve the preparation of prospective brides towards marriage, so that it will lead to a healthy and happy marriage. The researcher reported a scoping review of peer-reviewed articles to identify the importance of mental health literacy for brides and grooms about to be married about to be married. It was adopted only five of the six steps of Arskey and O’Malley’s framework to facilitate scoping of 998 articles published between 2013-2024 from databases (MEDLINE/Pubmed, Proquest, Science Direct with 12 articles reviewed. Our findings show that Our findings show that mental health of prospective brides of prospective brides can be improved by increasing their their mental health literacy. Improving mental health literacy requires premarital mental health screening policies, awareness campaigns, training courses, and educational workshops and can be through digital-based mass media/social media.

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