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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

New paper from my group, led by Carolina Guzman Holst This is a secondary analysis of data from the high-quality MYRIAD trial, a universal school-based mindfulness intervention Summary below (🧵) acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Adolescents' trajectories of mental health in the MYRIAD trial

Abstract
Background
This study explored adolescent's mental health trajectories over the course of a school-based mindfulness-based intervention trial (MYRIAD). It examined whether intervention condition (mindfulness vs. teaching-as-usual), individual-level and contextual-level factors were associated with different trajectories.

Methods
This pre-registered study used data from 11- to 14-year-olds who participated in the MYRIAD trial. We used growth mixture models to examine distinct trajectories in risk for depression, social-emotional-behavioural functioning, and wellbeing (co-primary outcomes), and anxiety (secondary outcome), across pre-intervention, post-intervention and 12-month follow up (ns = 7198–7727). We then used multinomial and binomial logistic regression models to examine factors associated with individual trajectory membership.

Results
Distinct trajectories emerged for each outcome: A five-trajectory model best explained the changes in risk for depression, whilst four-trajectory models best explained changes in social-emotional-behavioural functioning, wellbeing, and anxiety. While 69%–80% of adolescents followed stable low-problem trajectories for each outcome, 11%–23% experienced stable high-problem trajectories, 2%–16% experienced increasing-problem trajectories and 1%–5% experienced decreasing-problem trajectories. Receiving the mindfulness intervention was not associated with any mental health trajectory in models adjusted for confounders. Several individual-level factors, including executive functioning difficulties and risk of mental health problems at baseline, and school-level factors, such as school climate, predicted adolescents' classification into different trajectories, but they did not vary according to intervention group.

Conclusions
Individual differences in mental health trajectories emerged over the course of a 1-year mindfulness-based intervention, with most adolescents experiencing low-stable problem trajectories for each outcome. However, the intervention itself had no impact on individual trajectory membership, mirroring null results found in the main trial. Our findings suggest that universal interventions may not be sensitive enough to address the diverse needs of all students, however, tailoring interventions to address a range of different individual and contextual factors might maximise their impact.

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Prevention of mental illness in children of parents with depression 10-min talk from Belinda Platt describing evidence-based interventions to prevent youth mental illness with a focus on an family-and group-based intervention. acamhlearn.org/Learning/Pre... #ACMHlearn

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Prevention of mental illness in children of parents with depression

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Francesca Zecchinato @fzecchinato.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Really glad I got to blog about this important work 💡 Preventing mental health difficulties in young people should be a priority and parental anxious behaviours can be an effective target for interventions 🎯

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Francesca Zecchinato @fzecchinato.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A very thought provoking discussion on young people's mental health and social media 💡

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Overdiagnosis of mental disorders is making headlines again, this time thanks to Wes Streeting. But it is true? (thread) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions

Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

There's a lot of evidence of the harms of smacking children. There's also evidence that children and young people learn more from rewards than from punishment, including this computational study by @stepalminteri.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Researchers are investigating perinatal intrusions—intense thoughts during and after pregnancy—to understand their causes and develop treatments, aiming to improve maternal and infant mental health. doi.org/g869wc

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Dark thoughts before and after giving birth are almost universal—now psychologists want to find out why

Researchers aim to investigate the causes and potential treatments for perinatal intrusions—intense and vivid thoughts that impact most people during and after pregnancy.

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