School absences have risen following the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent absenteeism remains high in primary and secondary schools in England compared with pre-pandemic levels. This coincides with an upward trend in emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA). EBSA adversely affects...
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Background
Mental health services are available for young people involved with the criminal justice system. However, they have unmet mental health needs after the expiration of criminal justice supervision.
ObjectiveTo determine the incidence rate and identify predictors of psychiatric hospitalisations within...
In interpreting and aggregating data in published reports, readers and authors must be aware that some data loss and transformation are inevitable in the process (figure 1).1 Kamp and colleagues recently examined the beneficial and adverse event (AE) profiles...
Background
Use of personal sensing to predict mental health risk has sparked interest in adolescent psychiatry, offering a potential tool for targeted early intervention.
ObjectivesWe investigated the preferences and values of UK adolescents with regard to use of digital sensing information,...
Background
Identifying factors that predict the course of persistent symptoms that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic is a public health issue. Modifiable factors could be targeted in therapeutic interventions.
ObjectiveThis prospective study based on the population-based CONSTANCES cohort examined whether the...
Background
Mental disorders have a high comorbidity with cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the causality between them has not been fully appreciated.
ObjectiveThis study aimed to systematically explore the bidirectional causality between the two broad categories of diseases.
MethodsWe conducted Mendelian randomisation (MR)...
The number of prediction models for suicide-related outcomes has grown substantially in recent years. These models aim to assist in stratifying risk, improve clinical decision-making, and facilitate a personalised medicine approach to the prevention of suicidal behaviour. However, there...
Background
Mindfulness-based programmes (MBPs) are increasingly offered at work, often in online self-guided format. However, the evidence on MBPs' effect on work performance (WP) is inconsistent.
ObjectiveThis pragmatic randomised controlled feasibility trial assessed procedural uncertainties, intervention acceptability and preliminary effect sizes...
Background
Depression and anxiety have increased in prevalence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ObjectiveTo evaluate the consumption of antidepressants and anxiolytics from 2012 to 2022 and the pandemic's potential impact in France.
MethodsWe conducted an interrupted time series analysis of...
Background and objective
Various ways exist to display the effectiveness of medical treatment options. This study examined various psychiatric, medical and allied professionals' understanding and perceived usefulness of eight effect size indices for presenting both dichotomous and continuous outcome data.
MethodsWe...