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\n \n\n \n11 December 2020
\n \n \n \nThe most comprehensive study of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy to date shows a majority willing to be vaccinated, but a substantial minority concerned. Researchers from the University of Oxford surveyed a representative group of 5,114 UK adults about an approved COVID-19 vaccine for the NHS.
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\n \n\n \n23 November 2020
\n \n \n \nPreventing serious complications from COVID-19 in potentially vulnerable populations in high risk environments, such as prisons, and preventing spread to surrounding communities needs a coordinated evidence-based approach to managing outbreaks of COVID-19 in prison settings.
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\n \n\n \n16 November 2020
\n \n \n \nLatest report from the Co-SPACE (COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemics) survey highlights that for participating primary school aged children behavioural and restless/attentional difficulties increased between March and June. These difficulties generally decreased from July.
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\n \n\n \n10 November 2020
\n \n \n \nNew study suggests that having COVID-19 increases a person\u2019s risk of developing psychiatric disorders, and that having a psychiatric disorder increases the chance of getting COVID-19. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, used the TriNetX electronic health records of 69 million people in the USA including over 62,000 cases of COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n20 October 2020
\n \n \n \nAll Oxford students are invited to take part in the U-Flourish survey from 22 October 2020. The aim of the project is to better understand the factors that contribute to student wellbeing, mental health, and academic success, particularly how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected students and their learning.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Cathy Creswell, based in the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry has been awarded \u00a3495k for research to evaluate an online therapy programme for children with anxiety problems, to see if it is an effective remote alternative to existing mental health treatment services and could help treat anxiety problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n21 September 2020
\n \n \n \nIn partnership with members from the Department of Psychiatry this new study investigating the experiences of end-of-life care during the pandemic, now includes specific questions about communication with friends and relatives about their loved ones' illness and death.
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\n \n\n \n17 September 2020
\n \n \n \nEmotional and restless/attention difficulties and behaviour difficulties for primary school aged children were consistently elevated among children and young people from low income households over a month of lockdown, according to the most recent report from the Co-SPACE study.
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\n \n\n \n17 September 2020
\n \n \n \nSchool-based survey examines over 200 key factors in the lives and expectations of young people, aged 8-18 years, helping to shed light on mental health during lockdown.
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\n \n\n \n3 August 2020
\n \n \n \nA new guidance paper sets out how psychological theory and techniques can be applied to increase physical activity levels in a pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n29 July 2020
\n \n \n \nThe decrease in mood homeostasis due to lockdown translates (in simulations) into 3 times more episodes of depressed mood, according to a study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, led by Dr Maxime Taquet, University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n7 July 2020
\n \n \n \nA major UK research study - PHOSP-COVID, will investigate the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients. The new study has been awarded \u00a38.4 million jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
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\n \n\n \n25 June 2020
\n \n \n \nDr Katharine Smith, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford gave a talk on \u2018Digital technologies and telepsychiatry: an evidence-based synthesis of current guidance in the context of COVID-19\u2019 for the Data Science for Mental Health Interest Group based at The Alan Turing Institute in London on Thursday 18 June 2020.
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\n \n\n \n23 June 2020
\n \n \n \nThe \u2018Five Ways to Wellbeing\u2019 is an evidence-based set of practical actions that can be performed daily to enhance wellbeing. They are to: learn, connect, take notice, give and be active. A new paper by Dr Rowan Diamond in the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis (O-CAP) group suggests ways in which this framework of actions could be applied during this time of upheaval.
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\n \n\n \n22 June 2020
\n \n \n \nParents/carers of children aged 4-10 years of age reported that over a one-month period in lockdown, they saw increases in their child\u2019s emotional difficulties, such as feeling unhappy, worried, being clingy and experiencing physical symptoms associated with worry.
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\n \n\n \n22 June 2020
\n \n \n \nA team of Oxford researchers has won a grant from the University\u2019s Covid-19 Research Response Fund to study the effects of online cultural experiences on mental health. This new study will use the unique opportunity of lockdown and social distancing to gather new evidence.
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\n \n\n \n8 June 2020
\n \n \n \nThe news that children could be faced with in the current COVID-19 pandemic may seem almost unspeakable. But, together, we must find words, and ways, to give voice to their experience and prevent\u202fmillions of\u202fchildren\u202fstruggling\u202fwith\u202ftheir fears and\u202funcertainty\u202falone, say authors of a new Comment published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.
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\n \n\n \n3 June 2020
\n \n \n \nHalf of UK parents do not feel comfortable about their children attending school following lockdown, according to early results from a new study asking parents and carers about their children\u2019s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis.
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\n \n\n \n29 May 2020
\n \n \n \nHugh Grosvenor, The Duke of Westminster, has donated \u00a31m towards Oxford University\u2019s COVID-19 mental health research programmes. This is part of the \u00a310m donation announced by the Westminster Foundation last month to support the national COVID-19 relief effort.
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\n \n\n \n28 May 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Imperial College London and two third-sector organisations, The McPin Foundation and Youth Era are collaborating to co-design and deliver online peer support training for young people aged 16-18 years old in the UK.
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