Karmaliani, Rozina McFarlane, Judith Khuwaja, Hussain Maqbool Ahmed Somani, Yasmeen Shehzad, Shireen Saeed Ali, Tazeen Asad, Nargis Chirwa, Esnat D Jewkes, Rachel
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Global health action
Peer violence is common globally, but a little researched topic in low-and middle-income countries. This study presents the evaluation of a two-year randomized controlled trial of a structured play-based life-skills intervention implemented in schools in Hyderabad, Pakistan. To determine the impact of the intervention on school-based peer violence ...
Tollefsen, Thomas Kristian Darrow, Sabrina Michelle Neumer, Simon-Peter Berg-Nielsen, Turid Suzanne
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BMC Psychology
BackgroundAdolescents’ self-defined concerns about their mental health are understudied. Yet gaining insight into the individual concerns of this group could be helpful in providing better services to the adolescent population. In this study, an idiographic procedure called Assert was used to increase our knowledge of which concerns are reported by...
Combs, Jennifer Barzman, Drew Hemphill, Rosalie Osborn, Alexander Sorter, Michael Decker, Reine
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The Psychiatric quarterly
Research does not occur in a vacuum. Effective stakeholder engagement occurs on several levels, including outside influence and cooperation inside the institution. Little guidance around designing and implementing pragmatic mental health research exists. The following paper outlines lessons learned during the initial stages of research design and i...
Campisi, Susan C. Carducci, Bianca Akseer, Nadia Zasowski, Clare Szatmari, Peter Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundUnderstanding the burden and determinants of suicide during adolescence is key to achieving global health goals. We examined the prevalence and determinants of self-reported suicidal ideation and attempts among younger (13–15 years) and older adolescents (16–17 years).MethodsPooled prevalence estimates with 95% confidence interval, were c...
Edbrooke-Childs, Julian Boehnke, Jan R Zamperoni, Victoria Calderon, Ana Whale, Andy
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European child & adolescent psychiatry
Non-attendance of mental health service appointments is an international problem. In the UK, for example, the estimated cost of non-attendance in child mental health services is over £45 million (US dollar 60.94 million) per annum. The objective of this study was to examine whether there were service- and practitioner-level variation in non-consens...
Singla, Daisy R Waqas, Ahmed Hamdani, Syed Usman Suleman, Nadia Zafar, Syeda Wajeeha Zill-E-Huma, Saeed, Khalid Servili, Chiara Rahman, Atif
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Behaviour research and therapy
Adolescence represents an unprecedented opportunity to invest in health. Individual adolescent life skills programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have demonstrated success but neither their relative effectiveness across multiple health arenas, including mental health, nor their key ingredients have been examined. We conducted a system...
Catty, Jocelyn
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Wellcome open research
The author, a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in the UK NHS, ponders the varied impacts of 'lockdown' on adolescents, their parents and the psychotherapists who work with them, during the COVID-19 pandemic. She asks, particularly, how psychological therapies are positioned during such a crisis, and whether the pressures ...
Bratt, Anna Sofia Rusner, Marie Svensson, Idor
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Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
Background: The long-term negative consequences of mental health problems during adolescence highlight the need for effective treatments. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) aims to help individuals to enhance their ability to support and care for themselves and to alleviate shame and self-stigmatization. Objective: This non-randomized controlled tria...
Jun, Jeun Jivraj, Stephen Taylor, Keishia
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Social science & medicine (1982)
This paper determines the association of neighbourhood ethnic density on adolescent mental health and its interplay with ethnic minority status and neighbourhood deprivation. 4145 cross-sectional responses to the 2009-2011 UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) youth self-completion questionnaire for youths aged 10-15 living in England were combin...
Kirk, Alex Michael, Kurt Bergman, Shawn Schorr, Marisa Jameson, J P
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Cognitive behaviour therapy
School mental health (SMH) programs have been shown to be effective in providing evidence-based interventions to underserved youth. However, limitations of SMH programs are that they can entail holiday breaks, typically do not operate through summer, and often require pulling students from class to receive therapy. These limitations suggest that tr...
