1 July 2021
\n \n \n \nNew meta-analysis, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, shows adolescents with depressive symptoms were more likely to engage in risky behaviours compared with non-depressed adolescents.
\n \n\n \n \n29 June 2021
\n \n \n \nA new project has been awarded funding from the UKRI \u00a324 million investment into improving the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents in the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n28 June 2021
\n \n \n \nUKRI have announced a major \u00a324 million investment into improving the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents in the UK. One of the projects being funded is led by Professor Kam Bhui in the Department of Psychiatry, it will bring together diverse creative-arts, digital and health experts to investigate how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect adolescents' mental health.
\n \n\n \n \n21 June 2021
\n \n \n \nAn Oxford project using artificial intelligence to develop digital triage tools for mental health clinicians (CHRONOS) is one of 38 projects supported by the second wave of the NHS AI Lab's AI in Health and Care Award.
\n \n\n \n \n16 June 2021
\n \n \n \nA new large-scale study shows that a quarter of the UK adult population screens positive for a potential injection phobia. These individuals were twice as likely to report that they were COVID-19 vaccine hesitant \u2013 they would put off getting vaccinated or never get the jab.
\n \n\n \n \n7 June 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research from the University of Oxford, University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland, shows that low childhood family income does not increase later risks of psychiatric disorders and antisocial behaviours. The research is based on the Finnish population and is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
\n \n\n \n \n3 June 2021
\n \n \n \nThe first national UK survey focused on those bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic is published in Palliative Medicine. The survey findings inform important recommendations for service delivery of individualised, compassionate end-of-life care during a pandemic.
\n \n\n \n \n27 May 2021
\n \n \n \nSenior leaders in the NHS and public sector mental health care report on progress to reduce ethnic inequalities in mental health systems as pledged through the Synergi Collaborative Centre's work.
\n \n\n \n \n20 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe first paper to give voice to health and social care professionals providing end of life care during the pandemic is published in Palliative Medicine, led by researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Liverpool and Sheffield.
\n \n\n \n \n13 May 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research shows that people who suffer from recurrent abdominal pain in childhood may be more likely to have disordered eating as teenagers.
\n \n\n \n \n10 May 2021
\n \n \n \nUK academics are calling for targets for mental health research in order to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade. Published today in Journal of Mental Health, researchers set out four overarching goals that will speed up implementation of mental health research and give a clear direction for researchers and funders to focus their efforts when it comes to better understanding the treatment of mental health.
\n \n\n \n \n5 May 2021
\n \n \n \nParents and carers reported that behavioural, emotional and attentional difficulties in their children changed considerably throughout the past year, increasing in times of national lockdown and decreasing as restrictions eased and schools reopened, according to the latest Co-SPACE (COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemics) study, led by experts at the University of Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n13 April 2021
\n \n \n \nA new observational study is the first to examine suicides occurring during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in multiple countries and finds that suicide numbers largely remained unchanged or declined in the pandemic\u2019s early months, however continued monitoring is needed.
\n \n\n \n \n7 April 2021
\n \n \n \nOne in three COVID-19 survivors received a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, an observational study of more than 230,000 patient health records published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal estimates.
\n \n\n \n \n31 March 2021
\n \n \n \nBereaved relatives described the ongoing pain of being absent at the end of a loved-one's life. Many had not seen their relative for weeks or months due to the pandemic. Opportunities must be prioritised for essential connections between families at end-of-life care.
\n \n\n \n \n29 March 2021
\n \n \n \nThe majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience negative impacts on their physical and mental health, as well as ability to work, according to results released by the PHOSP-COVID study.
\n \n\n \n \n23 March 2021
\n \n \n \nHealthy Start, Happy start is a randomised controlled trial that tested the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of a brief parenting programme - Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD).
\n \n\n \n \n22 March 2021
\n \n \n \nGround-breaking multi-disciplinary research is to be launched today by the University of Oxford into the impact of poverty and social inequalities in early childhood, thanks to major funding from the Leverhulme Trust.
\n \n\n \n \n25 February 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research has developed a novel measure of dissociative experiences that share a subjective 'felt sense of anomaly'. This new approach could revolutionise how clinicians understand dissociative experiences across a range of mental health disorders, and how they work with patients with dissociation in the future.
\n \n\n \n \n18 February 2021
\n \n \n \nA new blog authored by mental health clinicians and researchers in the Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, and published in thebmjopinion, discusses the priority groups for COVID-19 vaccinations.
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