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Nuffield Department of Population Health researchers nominated for child and adolescent mental health award

Professor Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu from the Health Economics Research Centre are part of a multidisciplinary study team that has been nominated for a prestigious Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) award.

Children running through fields

The awards recognise those at the forefront of advancements in child and adolescent mental health research and practice.

The Child Anxiety Treatment in the context of COVID-19 (Co-CAT) study set out to test whether an online, parent-led with therapist support, programme worked as well as existing services offered to help children with anxiety problems, and represented good value for money throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Mara and Shuye led cost-effectiveness analyses, showing that the online programme brought promising savings without compromising patient outcomes. The intervention represents a valuable tool for increasing access to psychological therapies and meeting the growing demand for treatment of child anxiety problems. The Co-CAT study intervention was one of four online therapies for anxiety and PTSD that were made available to the NHS last year.

 

Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Population Health website.

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