TY - JOUR AU - Chi-hin Lam, AU - Wai-kwan LI, AU - Sau-chuen Joe AU, PY - 2023/05/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Expressive Textile Arts and Fashion-based Intervention for Youth with Emotional Distress: A Pilot Study JF - Global Journal of Human-Social Science JA - GJHSS VL - 23 IS - A3 SE - Articles DO - 10.34257/GJHSSAVOL23IS3PG7 UR - https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/103690 SP - 7-22 AB - Recent years have seen increased interest in early intervention in and prevention of mental health difficulties during adolescence In this pilot study a structured expressive textile art and fashion based ETAFB intervention was conducted to evaluate the beneficial effects on personal wellbeing and social interaction of youth with emotional distress A one-group pretest-posttest pilot study was conducted among 18 youth with emotional distress All the participants attended four sessions of ETAFB intervention All the participants were subjected to a preintervention test and a 4-week postintervention test using the Personal Wellbeing Index School Children PWI-SC 12-item General Health Questionnaire GHQ-12 and Social Interaction Anxiety Scale SIAS The study findings revealed that the ETAFB intervention was associated with significant improvements in some of the measurements This information provides the groundwork for a further study to investigate the effect of the ETAFB intervention on the relationship between youth well-being and facilitators ER -