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Trends in antidepressant prescriptions in children and young people in England, 1998-2017: protocol of a cohort study using linked primary care and secondary care datasets (2019)
Journal Article
Jack, R. H., Hollis, C., Coupland, C., Morriss, R., Knaggs, R. D., Cipriani, A., …Hippisley-Cox, J. (2019). Trends in antidepressant prescriptions in children and young people in England, 1998-2017: protocol of a cohort study using linked primary care and secondary care datasets. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 22(3), 129-133. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2019-300097

Introduction Increasing numbers of children and young people (CYP) are receiving prescriptions for antidepressants. This is the protocol of a study aiming to describe the trends and variation in antidepressant prescriptions in CYP in England, and t... Read More about Trends in antidepressant prescriptions in children and young people in England, 1998-2017: protocol of a cohort study using linked primary care and secondary care datasets.

Methylphenidate and the risk of psychosis in adolescents and young adults: a population-based cohort study (2019)
Journal Article
Hollis, C., Chen, Q., Chang, Z., Quinn, P. D., Viktorin, A., Lichtenstein, P., …Larsson, H. (2019). Methylphenidate and the risk of psychosis in adolescents and young adults: a population-based cohort study. Lancet Psychiatry, 6(8), 651-658. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2819%2930189-0

Background: There is a clinical concern that prescribing methylphenidate, the most common pharmacological treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), might increase the risk of psychotic events, particularly in young people with a... Read More about Methylphenidate and the risk of psychosis in adolescents and young adults: a population-based cohort study.

A Feasibility Trial of Power Up: Smartphone App to Support Patient Activation and Shared Decision Making for Mental Health in Young People (2019)
Journal Article
Edbrooke-Childs, J., Edridge, C., Averill, P., Delane, L., Hollis, C., Carven, M., …Wolpert, M. (2019). A Feasibility Trial of Power Up: Smartphone App to Support Patient Activation and Shared Decision Making for Mental Health in Young People. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 7(6), Article e11677. https://doi.org/10.2196/11677

Background: Digital tools have the potential to support patient activation and shared decision making in the face of increasing levels of mental health problems in young people. There is a need for feasibility trials of digital interventions to deter... Read More about A Feasibility Trial of Power Up: Smartphone App to Support Patient Activation and Shared Decision Making for Mental Health in Young People.

Towards a consensus around standards for smartphone apps and digital mental health (2019)
Journal Article
John Torous, J., Anderson, G., Bertagnoli, A., Christensen, H., Cuijpers, P., Firth, J., …Arean, P. A. (2019). Towards a consensus around standards for smartphone apps and digital mental health. World Psychiatry, 18(1), 97-98. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20592

Mental disorders impact one in four people worldwide, yet access to care is challenging for those who suffer from them1. Mental health apps offer the potential to overcome access barriers for the nearly three billion people projected to own a smartph... Read More about Towards a consensus around standards for smartphone apps and digital mental health.