Designing economic evaluations for school-based mental health interventions

I present a brief overview of the current landscape of school mental health and share insights from my work on evaluating the cost-effectiveness of universal interventions in primary and secondary schools in the UK

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/142_wRKZyNFT9hWN8N8jkpWzimOt_fsFBK59ZNPb-k-s/edit?usp=sharing

Systematic review: Methods of economic evaluation for school-based mental health interventions

This review aims to identify, critically appraise and summarise the most frequently used methods of economic evaluation for school-based mental health interventions.

• Review protocol

Trial #1: Supporting Teachers and childRen in Schools (STARS)

STARS is a pragmatic, parallel group, superiority, cluster randomised controlled trial that examined the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management programme, compared with teaching as usual. The trial took place in 80 primary schools across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, and evaluated whether increasing teachers’ skills in dealing with children who are difficult to manage in a classroom environment lead to improvement in: the child’s emotional wellbeing; the child’s behaviour in the classroom; the child’s academic attainment; the teacher’s view of their own effectiveness as a teacher; the teacher’s levels of stress and wellbeing; the child’s view of school.

• Study webpage
• Study protocol
• Service use measure - Child and Adolescent Service Use Schedule (CASUS)
  • Brief, self-report version for parents
  • Full, interview-based version for parents
• Publication - study results
• Publication - report to funders
• Poster presentation - economics results

Trial #2: MY Resilience In ADolescence (MYRIAD)

MYRIAD is a superiority, parallel group, cluster randomised controlled trial designed to examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training programme, compared with normal social and emotional learning school provision to enhance mental health, social-emotional-behavioural functioning and well-being in adolescence. This trial is currently taking place in 84 secondary schools across the UK.