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ReviewNPJ digital medicine2020

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

Aislinn D Bergin, Elvira Perez Vallejos, E Bethan Davies, David Daley, Tamsin Ford, Gordon Harold, Sarah Hetrick, Megan Kidner, Yunfei Long, Sally Merry and 6 more

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Review in NPJ digital medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
84citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
10.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

84 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 149 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 9 institutions in 6 countries.

Aislinn D BerginNIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative, Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4276-3466
Elvira Perez VallejosNIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Mental Health and Technology Theme, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
E Bethan DaviesNIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative, Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
David DaleyNIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative, Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Tamsin FordDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Gordon HaroldFaculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Sarah HetrickDepartment of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Megan KidnerThe Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Yunfei LongHorizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Sally MerryDepartment of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Richard MorrissNIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative, Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Kapil SayalDivision of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Edmund Sonuga-BarkeDepartment of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Jo RobinsonOrygen, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
John TorousDepartment of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA.
Chris HollisNIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative, Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
University of Nottingham · GBUniversity of Auckland · NZBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USKing's College London · GBThe University of Melbourne · AUTrinity College Dublin · IEUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Essex · GBUniversity of Exeter · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G108/625Medical Research Council MR/T046864/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 (

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Identifiers

PMID33083568
PMCPMC7562906
OpenAlexW3094330626

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