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{"title":"COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world.","authors":"Chris Zielinski","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300605","url":null,"abstract":"The 2022 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a dark picture of the future of life on earth, characterised by ecosystem collapse, species extinction and climate hazards such as heatwaves and floods. These are all linked to physical and mental health problems, with direct and indirect consequences of increased morbidity and mortality. To avoid these catastrophic health effects across all regions of the globe, there is broad agreement—as 231 health journals argued together in 2021—that the rise in global temperature must be limited to <1.5°C compared with preindustrial levels. While the Paris Agreement of 2015 outlines a global action framework that incorporates providing climate finance to lowincome and middleincome countries, this support has yet to materialise. COP27 is the fifth Conference of the Parties (COP) to be organised in Africa since its inception in 1995. Ahead of this meeting, we—as health journal editors from across the continent—call for urgent action to ensure it is the COP that finally delivers climate justice for Africa and vulnerable countries. This is essential for the health of those countries, and for the health of the whole world.","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685688/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40339490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comment on: 'Vitruvian plot: a visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network meta-analysis'.","authors":"Honghao Lai,&nbsp;Mingyao Sun,&nbsp;Bei Pan,&nbsp;Long Ge","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300547","url":null,"abstract":"Ostinelli et al developed an interesting visualisation tool, the Vitruvian plot, to present multiple outcomes in network metaanalysis. We write to make some suggestions and potential improvements. First, to present the strength of statistical evidence, the authors colour the sectors according to the p values of a Ztest. According to the Cochran handbook, this could lead to overreliance and misinterpretation of p values, and assertive judgements about imprecision. One solution is to use a partially contextualised approach, according to the guidance of the GRADE working group. This approach also encourages researchers to use absolute values. After choosing reference intervention, researchers need to set thresholds for effects, which classify interventions into those with a trivial, small, moderate or large effect. The specific magnitude of the potential benefit or harm is more conducive to helping readers understand the evidence accurately. Second, in the Vitruvian plot, the increase in absolute event rate is in a 1:1 ratio with the increase in sector radius. Taking into account the general reader’s understanding of statistics, this could lead to misunderstandings. For example, if the radius is doubled, the area will be quadrupled. The sector area cannot accurately represent the corresponding absolute estimates. We suggest that the absolute event rate should be comparable to the ratio of shaded sectors to total sector area, which will avoid misunderstandings by graphically sensitive readers. Third, the original Vitruvian plot cannot show both the specific magnitude of the potential benefit or harm and the certainty of evidence at the same time. Especially when we use effect size to colour the sector, the certainty of evidence could present information of imprecision. We propose improvements to the Vitruvian plot to increase the presentation of the certainty of evidence. This facilitates the user to read the evidence coherently. Based on the original design, we improved the original Vitruvian plot as shown in figure 1. The data presented in the figure are fictitious. For demonstration purposes, we set the same threshold for each outcome. The green and red in the sector represent the two directions of the effect. The ratio of the shaded sector area to the total sector area is consistent with the absolute event rate. The area outside the circle is used to present the certainty of evidence. We find the Vitruvian plot to be very useful and sincerely hope that our suggestions could refine this visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network metaanalysis.","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231525/pdf/ebmental-2022-300547.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10582545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk prediction model for cardiovascular diseases in adults initiating pharmacological treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.","authors":"Maja Dobrosavljevic,&nbsp;Seena Fazel,&nbsp;Ebba Du Rietz,&nbsp;Lin Li,&nbsp;Le Zhang,&nbsp;Zheng Chang,&nbsp;Tomas Jernberg,&nbsp;Stephen V Faraone,&nbsp;Johan Jendle,&nbsp;Qi Chen,&nbsp;Isabell Brikell,&nbsp;Henrik Larsson","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Available prediction models of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) may not accurately predict outcomes among individuals initiating pharmacological treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To improve the predictive accuracy of traditional CVD risk factors for adults initiating pharmacological treatment of ADHD, by considering novel CVD risk factors associated with ADHD (comorbid psychiatric disorders, sociodemographic factors and psychotropic medication).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The cohort composed of 24 186 adults residing in Sweden without previous CVDs, born between 1932 and 1990, who started pharmacological treatment of ADHD between 2008 and 2011, and were followed for up to 2 years. CVDs were identified using diagnoses according to the International Classification of Diseases, and dispended medication prescriptions from Swedish national registers. Cox proportional hazards regression was employed to derive the prediction model.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The developed model included eight traditional and four novel CVD risk factors. The model showed acceptable overall discrimination (C index=0.72, 95% CI 0.70 to 0.74) and calibration (Brier score=0.008). The Integrated Discrimination Improvement index showed a significant improvement after adding novel risk factors (0.003 (95% CI 0.001 to 0.007), p<0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The inclusion of the novel CVD risk factors may provide a better prediction of CVDs in this population compared with traditional CVD predictors only, when the model is used with a continuous risk score. External validation studies and studies assessing clinical impact of the model are warranted.</p><p><strong>Clinical implications: </strong>Individuals initiating pharmacological treatment of ADHD at higher risk of developing CVDs should be more closely monitored.</p>","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685689/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10217508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Venlafaxine XR treatment for older patients with major depressive disorder: decision trees for when to change treatment.","authors":"Helena Kyunghee Kim,&nbsp;Daniel M Blumberger,&nbsp;Jordan F Karp,&nbsp;Eric Lenze,&nbsp;Charles F Reynolds,&nbsp;Benoit H Mulsant","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300479","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Predictors of antidepressant response in older patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) need to be confirmed before they can guide treatment.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To create decision trees for early identification of older patients with MDD who are unlikely to respond to 12 weeks of antidepressant treatment, we analysed data from 454 older participants treated with venlafaxine XR (150-300 mg/day) for up to 12 weeks in the Incomplete Response in Late-Life Depression: Getting to Remission study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We selected the earliest decision point when we could detect participants who had not yet responded (defined as >50% symptom improvement) but would do so after 12 weeks of treatment. Using receiver operating characteristic models, we created two decision trees to minimise either false identification of future responders (false positives) or false identification of future non-responders (false negatives). These decision trees integrated baseline characteristics and treatment response at the early decision point as predictors.</p><p><strong>Finding: </strong>We selected week 4 as the optimal early decision point. Both decision trees shared minimal symptom reduction at week 4, longer episode duration and not having responded to an antidepressant previously as predictors of non-response. Test negative predictive values of the leftmost terminal node of the two trees were 77.4% and 76.6%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our decision trees have the potential to guide treatment in older patients with MDD but they require to be validated in other larger samples.</p><p><strong>Clinical implications: </strong>Once confirmed, our findings may be used to guide changes in antidepressant treatment in older patients with poor early response.</p>","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10134194/pdf/ebmental-2022-300479.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10592273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to measure mental pain: a systematic review assessing measures of mental pain.","authors":"Camille Charvet, Isabelle Boutron, Yannick Morvan, Catherine Le Berre, Suzanne Touboul, Raphaël Gaillard, Eiko Fried, Astrid Chevance","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2021-300350","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ebmental-2021-300350","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Question: </strong>Although mental pain is present in many mental disorders and is a predictor of suicide, it is rarely investigated in research or treated in care. A valid tool to measure it is a necessary first step towards better understanding, predicting and ultimately relieving this pain.</p><p><strong>Study selection and analysis: </strong>Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we performed a systematic review to identify all published standardised measures of mental pain. We used qualitative content analysis to evaluate the similarity of each measure, quantified via Jaccard Index scores ranging from no similarity (0) to full similarity (1). Finally, using the Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) methodology, we evaluated each measure's development (assessing 35 features), its content validity (31 features) and if the latter was rated at least adequate, its other psychometric properties.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>We identified 10 self-reported scales of mental pain in 2658 screened studies relying on diverse definitions of this construct. The highest average similarity coefficient for any given measure was 0.24, indicative of weak similarity (individual pairwise coefficients from 0 to 0.5). Little to no information was provided regarding the development and the content validity of all 10 scales. Therefore, their development and content validity were rated 'inadequate' or 'doubtful'.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and clinical implications: </strong>There is not enough evidence of validity to recommend using one measure over others in research or clinical practice. Heterogeneous use of disparate measures across studies limits comparison and combination of their results in meta-analyses. Development by all stakeholders (especially patients) of a consensual patient-reported measure for mental pain is needed.</p><p><strong>Prospero registration number: </strong>CRD42021242679.</p>","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231614/pdf/ebmental-2021-300350.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10270503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk factors for suicide in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological autopsy studies.","authors":"Louis Favril,&nbsp;Rongqin Yu,&nbsp;Abdo Uyar,&nbsp;Michael Sharpe,&nbsp;Seena Fazel","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300549","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Question: </strong>Effective prevention of suicide requires a comprehensive understanding of risk factors.</p><p><strong>Study selection and analysis: </strong>Five databases were systematically searched to identify psychological autopsy studies (published up to February 2022) that reported on risk factors for suicide mortality among adults in the general population. Effect sizes were pooled as odds ratios (ORs) using random-effects models for each risk factor examined in at least three independent samples.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>A total of 37 case-control studies from 23 countries were included, providing data on 40 risk factors in 5633 cases and 7101 controls. The magnitude of effect sizes varied substantially both between and within risk factor domains. Clinical factors had the strongest associations with suicide, including any mental disorder (OR=13.1, 95% CI 9.9 to 17.4) and a history of self-harm (OR=10.1, 95% CI 6.6 to 15.6). By comparison, effect sizes were smaller for other domains relating to sociodemographic status, family history, and adverse life events (OR range 2-5).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A wide range of predisposing and precipitating factors are associated with suicide among adults in the general population, but with clear differences in their relative strength.</p><p><strong>Prospero registration number: </strong>CRD42021232878.</p>","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685708/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10280700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carpe diem.","authors":"Andrea Cipriani","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300608","url":null,"abstract":"Nine years ago, in my first editorial for EvidenceBased Mental Health (EBMH) as editor in chief, I wrote that ‘EBMH should be seen as a tool to engage new generations of psychiatrists and psychologists to develop and implement the evidencebased approach into daily clinical practice.’ I took the job when I moved to Oxford and one of the main reasons why I accepted the challenge of editing this journal was the name of the journal itself. Evidence is anything presented in support of an assertion. Even if ‘evidence’ is not necessarily ‘evident’, be it strong (ideal scenario) or weak (too often the case), evidence is about data (scientific data, possibly!). Evidence can change over the years, but it is the closest we can get to the truth itself when we deal with healthrelated issues. As a practising psychiatrist, I think that evidence is the only objective starting point that should be used in clinical practice. An evidencebased decision is not ‘a priori’ determined only by the data and it may vary from one patient to another depending on individual clinical circumstances and personal preferences. However, we need data to justify our rational choice in clinical decision making; otherwise, patients will be treated according to mere—and too often, biased—opinions (the recent controversies about COVID19 treatments and vaccines are a clear example of ideology and disinformation). Given the inevitability of errors and inaccuracies in the scientific literature, we have a simple choice: we can either make the best use of the available evidence or dismiss and ignore it. Our journal has always favoured the former approach and rejected nihilism. Valid conclusions can be drawn from a critical and cautious use of the best available, even if flawed, evidence. In 2023, we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the foundation of EBMH. It is a remarkable achievement. And it is great to see that many of the previous editors and associate editors of the journal are still active as academics and clinicians, practising and disseminating evidencebased mental health across the globe. They should be congratulated for their pioneering vision of ‘harnessing advances in clinical epidemiology, biostatistics and information science to produce a coherent and comprehensive approach’ that allowed ‘clinicians to stay up to date with the most recent publications, and base their practice on the best available evidence.’ However, over the last quarter of a century, EBMH has changed dramatically. The journal started as an international digest of the most relevant studies in mental health and published only commissioned commentaries and opinion pieces. EBMH now has its core in unsolicited original research papers and methodological articles, and has become one of the top 10 mental health journals in the world in terms of impact factor (https:// ebmh.bmj.com/pages/about/). To this success contributed all of our editors, editorial boards, publishers, authors and readers. The point now is w","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231558/pdf/ebmental-2022-300608.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10583038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk of psychosis in illicit amphetamine users: a 10 year retrospective cohort study.","authors":"Chieh-Liang Huang,&nbsp;I-Ju Tsai,&nbsp;Cynthia Wei-Sheng Lee","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2021-300300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2021-300300","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Question: </strong>Amphetamine use is a risk factor for psychosis, which imposes a substantial burden on society. We aimed to investigate the incidence of psychosis associated with illicit amphetamine use and whether rehabilitation treatments could influence the psychosis risk.</p><p><strong>Study selection and analysis: </strong>A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the population based Taiwan Illicit Drug Issue Database (TIDID) and the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), from 2007 to 2016. We identified 74 601 illicit amphetamine users as the amphetamine cohort and 2 98 404 subjects as the non-amphetamine cohort. The incidence rate of newly diagnosed psychosis was the main outcome. Cox proportional hazards models were applied to assess the effects of amphetamine, and the Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate the cumulative psychosis incidence curves.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Illicit amphetamine users were 5.28 times more likely to experience psychosis than those without illicit drug use records. The risk was higher for subjects with multiple arrests for amphetamine use. A greater hazard ratio (HR) magnitude was observed in female patients. We also observed a significant decrease in the risk of psychosis in patients receiving rehabilitation treatments during deferred prosecution (adjusted HR 0.74, 95% CI 0.61 to 0.89).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Illicit amphetamine use was associated with an increased incidence of psychosis. The risk was identified across all age groups, particularly in women and in those arrested multiple times, and was inversely correlated with rehabilitation treatments for amphetamine misuse.</p>","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231478/pdf/ebmental-2021-300300.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10216187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From living systematic reviews to meta-analytical research domains.","authors":"Pim Cuijpers, Clara Miguel, Davide Papola, Mathias Harrer, Eirini Karyotaki","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300509","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300509","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Because of the rapidly increasing number of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses in many fields, there is an urgent need to step up from meta-analyses to higher levels of aggregation of outcomes of RCTs. Network meta-analyses and umbrella reviews allow higher levels of aggregation of RCT outcomes, but cannot adequately cover the evidence for a whole field. The 'Meta-Analytic Research Domain' (MARD) may be a new methodology to aggregate RCT data of a whole field. A MARD is a living systematic review of a research domain that cannot be covered by one PICO. For example, a MARD of psychotherapy for depression covers all RCTs comparing the effects of all types of psychotherapy to control conditions, to each other, to pharmacotherapy and combined treatment. It also covers all RCTs comparing treatment formats, the effects in different target groups, subtypes of depression and secondary outcomes. Although the time and resources needed to build a MARD are considerable, they offer many advantages, including a comprehensive and consistent overview of a research field and important meta-analytic studies that cannot be conducted with conventional methods. MARDs are a promising method to step up the aggregation of RCTs to a next level and it is highly relevant to work out the methods of this approach in a more detailed way.</p>","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/6f/85/ebmental-2022-300509.PMC9685685.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40519696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of mindfulness training in early adolescence on affective executive control, and on later mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomised controlled trial.","authors":"Darren Dunning, S Ahmed, L Foulkes, C Griffin, K Griffiths, J T Leung, J Parker, Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer, A Sakhardande, M Bennett, C Haag, Jesus Montero-Marin, D Packman, Maris Vainre, P Watson, Willem Kuyken, J Mark G Williams, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Tim Dalgleish","doi":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300460","DOIUrl":"10.1136/ebmental-2022-300460","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous research suggests that mindfulness training (MT) appears effective at improving mental health in young people. MT is proposed to work through improving executive control in affectively laden contexts. However, it is unclear whether MT improves such control in young people. MT appears to mitigate mental health difficulties during periods of stress, but any mitigating effects against COVID-related difficulties remain unexamined.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate whether MT (intervention) versus psychoeducation (Psy-Ed; control), implemented in after-school classes: (1) Improves affective executive control; and/or (2) Mitigates negative mental health impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A parallel randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted (Registration: https://osf.io/d6y9q/; Funding: Wellcome (WT104908/Z/14/Z, WT107496/Z/15/Z)). 460 students aged 11-16 years were recruited and randomised 1:1 to either MT (N=235) or Psy-Ed (N=225) and assessed preintervention and postintervention on experimental tasks and self-report inventories of affective executive control. The RCT was then extended to evaluate protective functions of MT on mental health assessed after the first UK COVID-19 lockdown.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Results provided no evidence that the version of MT used here improved affective executive control after training or mitigated negative consequences on mental health of the COVID-19 pandemic relative to Psy-Ed. No adverse events were reported.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There is no evidence that MT improves affective control or downstream mental health of young people during stressful periods.</p><p><strong>Clinical implications: </strong>We need to identify interventions that can enhance affective control and thereby young people's mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":12233,"journal":{"name":"Evidence Based Mental Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9340025/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9520678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}