The media reports may give the impression that this study refutes previous thinking that social media use can have a detrimental effect of wellbeing. In fact the findings don't seem to be so clear cut.
The study found that social media use is linked with reduced life satisfaction, while less social media use is linked with greater life satisfaction. But the links were very small and may not be significant.
The study has a number of limitations.
A pioneering NHS pilot scheme to help vulnerable children improve their sleep patterns has delivered significant improvements to families’ health and wellbeing.
The programme in Sheffield, developed by the NHS, the Children’s Sleep Charity and Sheffield City Council, delivers sleep clinics to children from troubled backgrounds or with very challenging behaviour, resulting in children sleeping well and performing better at school, while freeing up time for parents to recharge and be better able to look after their family.
Research by Oxford University academics has found little evidence of a relationship between screen time and wellbeing in adolescents.
Based on data from more than 17,000 teenagers, the study casts doubt on the widely accepted notion that spending time online, gaming or watching TV, especially before bedtime, can damage young people’s mental health.
Multivariate analysis of Children's Society data to see which factors contribute to loneliness in children aged 10 to 15 years. The focus is on poverty and the child's perspective.
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NHS England has published a Clinical Review of NHS Access Standards. It contains proposals to speed up access to mental health services as well as revised measures for treatment in A&E.
Open access. Anxiety may be associated with poor attendance at school, which can lead to a range of adverse outcomes. We systematically reviewed the evidence for an association between anxiety and poor school attendance.
This report summarises how 17 key indicators of the health and wellbeing of young people aged 10–24 vary in a selection of 19 similar high-income countries both within and outside of Europe.
The report, published with the Association for Young People's Health, provides an indication of where health outcomes for adolescents and young adults in the United Kingdom (UK) could be improved. Despite some successes, the UK’s performance on the 17 key health and wellbeing indicators highlighted in this report often lags behind that of the other 18 countries included in the analysis and there is much room for improvement.
No-one can doubt that many 21st century schoolchildren are generally unhappy with their lives, and we see the effects of this in our wards and clinics, with self-harm and functional symptoms. What can be done in schools to help? Bullying, aggression and violence are major factors, and strategies have been developed that purport to change the prevailing culture in schools, with benefits to the students’ well-being. Until now, these have not been subjected to rigorous controlled trials.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
It is 40 years since the seminal description of ‘Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy’ (MSbP) by UK Paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow.1 There have been a number of developments since, which include terminology, definition, prevalence and management. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) adopted the term ‘Fabricated or Induced Illness by Carers’ (FII) in 2002,2 and updated their guidance in 2009.3 The most recent version of the RCPCH Child Protection Companion extended FII to embrace perplexing presentations with suggestions for management.4 The important evolution in the UK has been towards earlier diagnosis and intervention without the need for proof of deliberate deception. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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Routine screening to identify mental health problems in English looked-after children has been conducted since 2009 using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).
The intriguing evolution of health policy in recent years has implications for all parts of the health system. With the UK falling behind most high-income countries on many measures of child health1 and growing evidence of a worrying health gap between UK children in deprived and affluent areas,2 paediatricians and others working in child health will want to remain abreast of the broader policy backdrop even where child health has not been privileged in policymaking. While the 2012 Health and Social Care Act reinforced the fragmentation of the service through multiple providers in competition with one another, subsequent policy promises local collaboration and joint working. This article traces this evolution and asks what it means.
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The alarming headline is prompted by the publication of the 7th edition of the Good Childhood Report, produced by UK charity The Children's Society. This annual report aims to find out how children in the UK feel about their lives and the things that make them happy and unhappy.
Medication-related errors are among the most common medical errors, and studies have shown that the paediatric population is particularly vulnerable. Errors can occur during any step in the medication process. This review article seeks to highlight new advancements in the field of paediatric medication safety at each stage of the medication process, from ordering and transcribing to medication dispensing and administration. We will focus on interventions that are increasingly widely used, such as computerised provider order entry with clinical decision support, barcoding technologies and safe medication administration through technologies pumps (SMART pumps), as well as innovative mobile application devices and workflow management systems that are being piloted at single institutions. By highlighting what is new in paediatric medication safety, as well as the gaps that remain, we hope to continue to foster focus on this critically important area in order to create the safest possible environment for children.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. Basic parenting research reveals that child mental health is associated with optimal parenting, which is composed of three key dimensions (structure, affiliation and autonomy support). The present study aims to test the efficacy of the parenting program “How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk” (French version), thought to address all of these dimensions, in promoting children’s mental health. We predict that the How-to Parenting Program will promote child mental health by fostering optimal parenting.
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This study examined mental health service use outcomes for children receiving integrated care via a collaborative-practice model (CPM). The study hypothesis was that the delivery of intensively integrated clinical care within pediatrics, combined with community-based parent support from family support specialists (FSSs), would facilitate mental health or substance use disorder treatment access and engagement for youths at risk of experiencing disparities.. Login at top right hand side of page using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP (legacy account)- Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Katrina Witt on a meta-analysis of exposure to interpersonal violence in childhood, and the impact that it may have on risk of suicide in young people.
Suicidal self-poisoning is a medical emergency but it is also a psychiatric one. Yet before a psychiatrist can be engaged it is often necessary for a physician or paediatrician to set the scene. Young people who have just taken a massive risk with their lives are in a turmoil of rage, fear, grief and shame. Though some will be keen to talk, others may be harder to reach. ‘The fact that young people who have self-harmed arrive at A&E feeling like ‘rubbish’ may predispose them to perceive staff attitudes and behaviours as hostile and punitive, even when staff do not intend them as such.’1 An attentive and careful medical assessment conveys that the problem is taken seriously by the hospital, for which patients will often in time be grateful.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The article reports on the response of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy to proposals set out by the government for improving healthcare for children and young people in England in a Green Paper that focuses on mental healthcare in schools and colleges.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
There has been a large increase in the number of children and adolescents who question conventional gender expectations and seek recognition and acceptance of their gender diversity, wishing to develop a body that is congruent with their gender feelings.1 Professionals may be unsure how best to provide supportive care, how to access the national Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for children and adolescents, or how to deal with a transgender young person presenting with another clinical problem unrelated to their gender transition. Faced with very distressed young people, they may feel under pressure to initiate physical intervention without consultation with psychosocial colleagues. It is important that all professionals are aware of the care pathway for transgender children that may be of relevance in a range of paediatric settings. The purpose of this practice review is to present an up-to-date perspective on the care of transgender children and adolescents to guide management and to enable the provision of a practical, evidence-based approach to their support.To examine trends in epilepsy admissions in children from 1981 to 2013.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is common in adolescents with a pronounced negative impact on quality of life. A pattern of avoidance behavior is commonly seen in the IBS population, which is associated with more gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. Exposure-based cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) targets the avoidance behavior to reduce symptoms, but it is unknown whether reduced avoidance is a mediator of symptom improvement in adolescent IBS.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Screening young people for risk of mental health difficulties in schools is an effective method to facilitate monitoring and early intervention. This study is a preliminary report on the adaptation of the Youth RADAR screening instrument for primary school children. Specifically designed to be used in schools, the Child RADAR assesses a child's balance of risk and protective factors known to be associated with the development of mental health problems.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Open access. The population of mixed ethnicity individuals in the UK is growing. Despite this demographic trend, little is known about mixed ethnicity children and their problem behaviours. We examine trajectories of behavioural problems among non-mixed and mixed ethnicity children from early to middle childhood using nationally representative cohort data in the UK.
Stefan Brugger on a recent study that looks at the role of vulnerability & resilience in relation to mental health & bullying in childhood #AntiBullyingWeek
This quality standard covers transitions for children, young people and adults between mental health hospitals and their own homes, care homes or other community settings. It includes the period before, during and after a person is admitted to, and discharged from, a mental health hospital. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
Growing up in a home with psychological abuse has longer-term effects on young people's wellbeing than domestic violence, according to a new study from Ireland.
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The series of 3 reports focus on:
self-harm;
cyberbullying;
emotional wellbeing of adolescent girls
These reports examine the data and explore what protective factors may exist in a young person’s life which may be linked to their mental health outcomes, ranging from personal attributes, family, school, peer and wider community context.
Linkage of routinely collected data from public services has the potential to improve how local health, education and social care are delivered to children. All mental health services, hospital-based child health services, schools and child protection services which serve the same local area could be more efficient if the design, monitoring, targeting and integration of services were based on data. Health services need evidence from the populations that they serve to plan care and know whether they are meeting children's needs, duplicating effort or allowing some children to fall through the net. In this paper, we describe how the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) programme has joined up data from health, education and social services for children living in four local authorities in South London to create two datasets: one linking hospital to children's mental health services and the second linking mental health data to education data. We describe these resources, give examples of how they are being used to improve services and discuss what is needed to implement this approach more widely across the UK. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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The Prince’s Trust Macquarie Youth Index released today (9th January) warns that more than a quarter of young people (28%) don’t feel in control of their lives, with concerns about job prospects, self-confidence and recent political events playing on young minds.
This quality standard covers all young people (aged up to 25) using children’s health and social care services who are due to make the transition to adults’ services. It includes young people:
with mental health problems
with disabilities
with long-term, life-limiting or complex needs
in secure settings
under the care of local authorities.
Feeding and eating disorders (FEDs) are serious mental health disorders that cause impairments in physical health, development, cognition and psychosocial function and can go undetected for months or years. They are characterised by disturbed eating behaviour associated with concerns about weight and shape or by disinterest in food, phobic avoidance or avoidance due to sensory aspects of food. Restrictive forms of FEDs lead to significant weight loss requiring intervention. Without specific knowledge of these conditions, they can evade detection, delaying time to diagnosis and treatment and potentially influencing outcome. This review article focuses on the key factors involved in the psychiatric assessment and treatment of four feeding or eating disorders (EDs): anorexia nervosa, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
On Tuesday 15 November, the Communications Committee inquiry into children and the internet examines issues surrounding mental health, as well as the suitability of material online. The Committee puts questions to mental health experts, as well as content monitoring bodies the Advertising Standards Agency and the British Board of Film Classification.
Helping children and families open up about experiencing domestic violence needs to be a public health priority, NICE experts are warning.
NICE has set out how NHS staff can have a more active role in spotting and responding to victims of domestic violence.
Hallucinations (erroneous percepts in the absence of identifiable stimuli) are a key feature of psychotic states, but they have long been known to present in children with non-psychotic psychiatric disorders. Recent epidemiological studies of child populations found surprisingly high rates (about 10%) of hallucinatory experiences. These hallucinatory phenomena are most likely to occur in the absence of psychiatric disorder and are usually simpler, less elaborate and less distressing than those observed in children with psychiatric disorders. This article details the clinical assessment of hallucinations in children and adolescents, taking into account developmental considerations and paediatric organic associations. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
oung people told us that they didn’t how, where or when to access services and health information and didn’t know what their health rights were.
Together with a steering group made up of young people across London we created the NHSGo app.
Young people helped us design everything from the look of the app to what content was put into it. They even came up with the name!!
An alliance between CNWL’s children’s service, London Borough Of Camden and the other 3 local NHS providers has found that implementing multi-disciplinary team reports (MDT) has improved its service performance.
Camden Integrated Children’s Service (CICS), an alliance between CNWL, London Borough of Camden, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, and Whittington Health NHS Trust works with children and young people with disabilities and additional needs.
Here is one landmark publication that every paediatrician must have read: the Nuffield Trust's briefing on new models of care for child health.1 The Nuffield Trust has a long track record of commissioning research on how to improve the health system in the UK. The document lists current dilemmas in delivering paediatric care, makes the case for a fundamental change in how this is delivered and critically appraises 12 novel models of paediatric care. As a community of paediatricians we need to respond to the challenge..........To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This Commons Library briefing discusses the debate around raising the age of criminal responsibility - the age below which a child is deemed not to have the capacity to commit a crime.
MyWell-being Online is Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s online service connecting young people with qualified health professionals at the touch of a button. Anyone aged 11-19 living or attending school in Cheshire West and Chester can log on and as well as browse useful tips and advice, speak to someone around low mood, relationship issues as well as exam result worries.
A new partnership of healthcare providers, including AWP, has been selected as the preferred bidder to deliver community health services for children and young people. The services will run in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset and are due to begin in April 2017.
The services will include health visiting, school nursing, child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS), speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, community paediatricians, community nursing and a range of dedicated services for vulnerable children including children in care, children with learning disabilities, children with life limiting conditions and children with drug and alcohol problems.
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The large-scale research study – Healthy Start, Happy Start – has been running since July last year in Camden and Hillingdon, and also Islington and Oxfordshire.
It aims to help improve children’s development and behaviour and support families by intervening early, potentially preventing early behavioural problems.
Young people in Rochdale can now get easier access to health advice thanks to a new text-messaging service.
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR) School Nursing Service, part of Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, will be launching the ChatHealth service for young people aged 11 to 19 years on 23 May.
Those who attend school in Heywood, Middleton or Rochdale, or live in the borough, can access the service by texting their concern or question to 07507330382.
ChatHealth is an award-winning initiative, developed by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which is available Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm, throughout the year excluding bank holidays.
A new website has launched that provides a wealth of mental health and emotional wellbeing support to young people.
Healthy Young Minds (formerly CAMHS) provides specialist support to children and young people, as well as to their families and carers.
It’s common for young people to experience low-level mental health and emotional wellbeing issues. However, most do not need the specialist support provided by the Healthy Young Minds Service.
They simply need some advice and support to help them deal with the stresses and worries of their day-to-day lives, such as exam stress, low self-esteem, bullying and relationships.
Person centred planning is an approach and collection of tools including colourful images and text to allow professionals, parents and anyone close to the child or young person to make future plans with a them rather than having the plan done for them.
Our case for change aims to prioritise infant mental health of babies and young children in care, bringing together a wide range of evidence from research and practice, from the UK and internationally, to help tell a compelling story about why we need to rethink our approach to infant mental health in the care system.
As part of completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire I designed a tool to be used with children and young people. This tool is a leaflet with the letters BE HAPPY on the front and corresponding words on the back to be completed with the child or young person.
Each letter covers an issue that I have found contributes to some of the difficulties young people can face and all areas are evidence based.
The publication includes advice on: encouraging a healthy pregnancy; the importance of newborn screening and vaccination; encouraging secure attachment; promoting breastfeeding; improving maternal mental health; healthy child programme; health and development reviews
With the focus on relationships in Mental Health Week, NHS England has put the spotlight on Sheffield where they are helping nurture relationships between adopters, foster carers and children to improve their adoption outcomes and mental health.
Almost 50 adopted children have had a smoother transition to their new homes thanks to a fresh £85,000 scheme in Sheffield helping assess and support their mental health needs.
The Pre-Adoption Service, run by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, hosted a successful unique year-long trial to reduce the number of failed adoptions and children needing mental health services in the future.
The care system is neglecting the mental health needs of children and teenagers, says a government report. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The Education Committee's report on the mental health and well-being of looked-after children notes that a significant number of local authorities and health services are failing to identify mental health issues when children enter care.
Parents are more likely to use mobile technology to calm children with behaviour difficulties, a new study In the Journal of the American Medical Association for Paediatrics has shown.
Children with social and emotional difficulties are more likely to be given mobile devices, such as iPads, to calm them down, according to the study of 144 children aged 15 to 36 months in low-income families. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Families, Systems, & Health (Mar 7, 2016).
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the perspectives of low-income, minority primary caregivers to inform the design of pediatric interventions to prevent mental health problems. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
This new case study highlights how some young people were engaged in a recruitment process who had varying needs. They were keen to take part but were not very confident or articulate.
Barnardo’s helped to identify a way of drawing on the young people’s strengths and likes to involve them in a meaningful way which has a positive effect on the young people and the candidates.
This guideline covers the period before, during and after a young person moves from children's to adults' services. It aims to help young people and their carers have a better experience of transition by improving the way it’s planned and carried out. It covers both health and social care.
News from our partners Public Health England
Disability Matters is partnering with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) to promote the importance of inclusion and access for all disabled children and young people aged 0 – 25 years.
They are collecting evidence and case-studies from young people with disabilities, parent carers and those who work or volunteer with people with disabilities to highlight the many positive ways that people are:
working pro-actively with children and young people with disabilities
enabling inclusion
making services accessible.
As a pan-disability programme they are interested in examples that relate to all disabilities, including intellectual / learning disabilities, physical disabilities, complex needs and visual or hearing impairments.
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This report highlights what the problems are in current health care services for children and young people, and investigates how emerging new models of care could provide an opportunity to address these.
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