Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37973671›Full record

ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2025

Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of a School-Based Intervention for Anxiety.

Gemma K Brown, Jane Owens, Cathy Richards, Simona Di Folco, Matthias Schwannauer

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Child psychiatry and human development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gemma K BrownChild and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK. g.k.brown@ed.ac.uk.
Jane OwensChild and Adolescent Mental Health Service, NHS Lanarkshire, 14 Beckford Street, Hamilton, ML3 OTA, UK.
Cathy RichardsChild and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK.
Simona Di FolcoSection of Clinical and Health Psychology, School of Health in Social Science, The University of Edinburgh, Doorway 6, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.
Matthias SchwannauerChild and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK.
University of Edinburgh · GBNHS Lanarkshire · GBNHS Lothian · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

School-based cognitive behavioural interventions for anxiety are found to be effective, but there is a lack of research on their implementation in real world settings. The current study aims to explore the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a school-based intervention for anxiety through a qualitative process evaluation. Evaluation of the implementation of Let's Introduce Anxiety Management (LIAM), a six-session school-based cognitive behavioural intervention, was conducted. LIAM was implemented by non-mental health professionals trained and coached on the model. Semi-structured interviews with stakeholders (N = 15) were analysed with grounded theory and framework analysis. Forty-one practitioners were trained and coached on LIAM, with thirty-five children and young people receiving the intervention. Facilitators (e.g. systemic collaboration, self-efficacy and an enabling context) and barriers (e.g. the exclusivity of the intervention and a lack of systemic understanding) to implementation emerged as themes. Implementing school-based interventions is complex and requires the involvement of multiple stakeholders.

Indexed as

AnxietyAnxiety DisordersCognitive Behavioral TherapySchool Health ServicesSchool Mental Health ServicesAdolescentChildFemaleHumansMaleQualitative ResearchAnxietyCognitive behaviouralImplementationProcess evaluationSchool-based

Identifiers

PMID37973671
PMCPMC12289713
OpenAlexW4388719644

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.