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Queen Mary Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry @qmulfmd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Short-term digital mental health interventions reduces depression and anxiety in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war - a first of its kind randomised controlled trial found delivering a problem solving digital mental health intervention significantly reduced symptoms.

2 teenagers look at a tablet in a classroom setting. Photocredit LIGHTFIELD STUDIOS on Adobe Stock

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Queen Mary Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry @qmulfmd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

An international group of researchers, led by Professor JR Weisz from @harvard.edu and colleagues including senior author Professor Dennis Ougrin from @qmul.bsky.social, tested a digital mental health intervention with 709 Ukrainian students, aged 10-18, who had been displaced to Poland.

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Queen Mary Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry @qmulfmd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

They created a Ukrainian-language version of an evidence-based digital mental health intervention called Project SOLVE. Delivered in schools through mobile devices, it teaches problem solving by providing strategies for solving everyday problems, such as school stress and interpersonal conflict.

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