This study investigates the association between childhood psychosocial adjustment and incident cardiometabolic diseases in mid-life, and the mediating roles of educational attainment, smoking habits and depression during young adulthood. Open access article - no login required.
Research in a local Trust providing health visiting services aimed to describe and interpret the interaction between UK parents and health visitors around infant weight (0–2) in delivering the UK Healthy Child Programme. Open access article - no login required.
Broadening prediction efforts from imminent psychotic symptoms to neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities can enhance the accuracy of diagnosing severe mental disorders. Child and adolescent mental health services should lead a developmentally-sensitive model for timely, effective detection and intervention. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Study found that a digitally augmented psychological therapy with therapist support could be as effective as normal treatment. This has cost and resource implications.
'This systematic review concluded that there are a wide variety of crisis interventions for CYP that show beneficial outcomes across various settings and intervention types. The findings suggest that readily available support offered in different modalities (in person/online) prior to the point of crisis would be beneficial for CYP.
Barriers to accessing crisis support include financial constraints, eligibility thresholds and a lack of knowledge of existing services.'
'overall highlighted that young people with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric conditions have a greater likelihood of bullying involvement. This effect is observed across different conditions, and types of bullying involvement (i.e., perpetration, victimisation, and combination of both)'
This article examines the characteristics and efficacy of interventions targeting executive functions in infancy and early childhood up to age 3. Open access article - no login required.
Eye-tracking technology could be used as a tool to allow RTT children and adults to communicate and learn in an easier way as well as for the detection of their feelings. Using eye-tracking technology as a method to complement cognitive assessment of children has a lot of potential not just for children with RTT but also for other individuals with limited communication skills.
This study aims to investigate the effects of neurocognitive training (NT), a personalized and specialized exercise programme on symptoms, attention and dynamic balance in treatment-naïve children diagnosed with ADHD. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
As the authors of this paper state,
offering timely access to evidence-based practices is crucial to address the research-practice gap and provide evidence-based care to children and young people.
This review summarises the key barriers and facilitators to help achieve this. It also highlights some of the conflicting priorities that CYP mental health services currently face between these identified facilitators and barriers (e.g., high service demands and prioritising innovation).
Additionally, this review emphasises the need to learn and use implementation strategies within CYP mental health settings in order to test and trial these methods and understand the effects within local and individual contexts.
This study examines alterations in number processing networks and whether changes in functional connectivity mediate the adverse effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on arithmetic performance. Open access article - no login required.
This study aimed to determine the level of electronic health literacy (eHL) of mothers of young children and investigate the relationship between mothers' eHL and early childhood development and early parenting practices. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study explores existing literature on individual peer-to-peer support (iP2PS) interventions for parents caring for children with BBDD with a view to (1) explore the impact of iP2PS interventions on parents and (2) identify challenges and facilitators of iP2PS. Open access article - no login required.
The aim of this study is to gain insight into the prevalence of physical health conditions and associations between these conditions in young children with PIMD. Open access article - no login required.
This study aims to assess the relative impact of perinatal and socio-familial risk factors on cognitive and language development at 2 years corrected age (CA). To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The current study investigated the association between paternal postnatal depressive symptoms and parenting behaviours. Open access article - no login required.
This article concludes that mental health among UK 5 and 8 year olds deteriorated during the pandemic, although several inequalities narrowed. Interventions are needed to improve child mental health while ensuring inequalities do not widen. Open access article - no login required
This cross-sectional study aims to systematically assess and compare parenting stress in families of children with various types of disabilities. Open access article - no login required
The COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in psychological distress and highlighted vulnerable groups such as those with previous or current mental health difficulties. Supporting the mental health needs of children and adolescents at risk is key. Clinical guidelines to alleviate the negative effects of COVID-19 lockdown and public health strategies to support this population need to be developed. Open access.