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Preventive digital mental health interventions for children and young people: a review of the design and reporting of research

Digital health interventions (DHIs) have frequently been highlighted as one way to respond to increasing levels of mental health problems in children and young people. Whilst many are developed to address existing mental health problems, there is also potential for DHIs to address prevention and ear...

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Autores principales: Bergin, Aislinn D., Vallejos, Elvira Perez, Davies, E. Bethan, Daley, David, Ford, Tamsin, Harold, Gordon, Hetrick, Sarah, Kidner, Megan, Long, Yunfei, Merry, Sally, Morriss, Richard, Sayal, Kapil, Sonuga-Barke, Edmund, Robinson, Jo, Torous, John, Hollis, Chris
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-00339-7
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author Bergin, Aislinn D.
Vallejos, Elvira Perez
Davies, E. Bethan
Daley, David
Ford, Tamsin
Harold, Gordon
Hetrick, Sarah
Kidner, Megan
Long, Yunfei
Merry, Sally
Morriss, Richard
Sayal, Kapil
Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
Robinson, Jo
Torous, John
Hollis, Chris
author_facet Bergin, Aislinn D.
Vallejos, Elvira Perez
Davies, E. Bethan
Daley, David
Ford, Tamsin
Harold, Gordon
Hetrick, Sarah
Kidner, Megan
Long, Yunfei
Merry, Sally
Morriss, Richard
Sayal, Kapil
Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
Robinson, Jo
Torous, John
Hollis, Chris
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description Digital health interventions (DHIs) have frequently been highlighted as one way to respond to increasing levels of mental health problems in children and young people. Whilst many are developed to address existing mental health problems, there is also potential for DHIs to address prevention and early intervention. However, there are currently limitations in the design and reporting of the development, evaluation and implementation of preventive DHIs that can limit their adoption into real-world practice. This scoping review aimed to examine existing evidence-based DHI interventions and review how well the research literature described factors that researchers need to include in their study designs and reports to support real-world implementation. A search was conducted for relevant publications published from 2013 onwards. Twenty-one different interventions were identified from 30 publications, which took a universal (n = 12), selective (n = 3) and indicative (n = 15) approach to preventing poor mental health. Most interventions targeted adolescents, with only two studies including children aged ≤10 years. There was limited reporting of user co-design involvement in intervention development. Barriers and facilitators to implementation varied across the delivery settings, and only a minority reported financial costs involved in delivering the intervention. This review found that while there are continued attempts to design and evaluate DHIs for children and young people, there are several points of concern. More research is needed with younger children and those from poorer and underserved backgrounds. Co-design processes with children and young people should be recognised and reported as a necessary component within DHI research as they are an important factor in the design and development of interventions, and underpin successful adoption and implementation. Reporting the type and level of human support provided as part of the intervention is also important in enabling the sustained use and implementation of DHIs.
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spelling pubmed-75629062020-10-19 Preventive digital mental health interventions for children and young people: a review of the design and reporting of research Bergin, Aislinn D. Vallejos, Elvira Perez Davies, E. Bethan Daley, David Ford, Tamsin Harold, Gordon Hetrick, Sarah Kidner, Megan Long, Yunfei Merry, Sally Morriss, Richard Sayal, Kapil Sonuga-Barke, Edmund Robinson, Jo Torous, John Hollis, Chris NPJ Digit Med Review Article Digital health interventions (DHIs) have frequently been highlighted as one way to respond to increasing levels of mental health problems in children and young people. Whilst many are developed to address existing mental health problems, there is also potential for DHIs to address prevention and early intervention. However, there are currently limitations in the design and reporting of the development, evaluation and implementation of preventive DHIs that can limit their adoption into real-world practice. This scoping review aimed to examine existing evidence-based DHI interventions and review how well the research literature described factors that researchers need to include in their study designs and reports to support real-world implementation. A search was conducted for relevant publications published from 2013 onwards. Twenty-one different interventions were identified from 30 publications, which took a universal (n = 12), selective (n = 3) and indicative (n = 15) approach to preventing poor mental health. Most interventions targeted adolescents, with only two studies including children aged ≤10 years. There was limited reporting of user co-design involvement in intervention development. Barriers and facilitators to implementation varied across the delivery settings, and only a minority reported financial costs involved in delivering the intervention. This review found that while there are continued attempts to design and evaluate DHIs for children and young people, there are several points of concern. More research is needed with younger children and those from poorer and underserved backgrounds. Co-design processes with children and young people should be recognised and reported as a necessary component within DHI research as they are an important factor in the design and development of interventions, and underpin successful adoption and implementation. Reporting the type and level of human support provided as part of the intervention is also important in enabling the sustained use and implementation of DHIs. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7562906/ /pubmed/33083568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-00339-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Bergin, Aislinn D.
Vallejos, Elvira Perez
Davies, E. Bethan
Daley, David
Ford, Tamsin
Harold, Gordon
Hetrick, Sarah
Kidner, Megan
Long, Yunfei
Merry, Sally
Morriss, Richard
Sayal, Kapil
Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
Robinson, Jo
Torous, John
Hollis, Chris
Preventive digital mental health interventions for children and young people: a review of the design and reporting of research
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-00339-7
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