Children and Young People's Mental Health (ChYMe) research collaboration

Our partners include:

• Devon Partnership NHS Trust
• Education Endowment Foundation
• Devon County Council
• Mental Health Commissioners Network
• National Foundation for Educational Research
• UK Adult ADHD Network
• ADHD Foundation
• British Paediatric Surveillance Unit 
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance Service
• Sydenham's Chorea Association
• MindEd
• Emerging Minds
• Place2Be

Publications

Selected publications from the Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration. If you would like to see more, please check out our team's profile pages which include an up-to-date list.

• Allen, K. March, A., Alexandrescu, B., Harris, J., Stemp, R., Li, S., ... & Berry, V. (2025). Developing programme theory for a place-based, systems change approach to adolescent mental health: A developmental realist evaluation. PLOS Mental Health, 2(6), e0000226. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000226 

• March, A., Allen, K., Davies, K., Harris, J., Bethel, A., Kennedy, L., ... & Berry, V. (2025). Place-based approaches to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people: a rapid realist review. Systematic reviews, 14(1), 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-025-02838-8 
  
  
• Trethewey, S.P., Mathews, F., Russell, A. et al. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics associated with mental health-related support and service contact in children and young people aged 5–16 in England. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 34, 2599–2608 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02666-0
  
  
• Russell, A.E., Holt, S., Kelman, C. et al. Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a school-based non-pharmacological intervention for ADHD: the Flex toolkit. Pilot Feasibility Stud (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-026-01879-7  
  
  
• Cortese S, Daley D, Hollis C, et al. ADHD (over) diagnosis: fiction, fashion and failure. The British Journal of Psychiatry. Published online 2026:1-4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2026.10546 
  
  
• Dodd, H.F., Cordwell, K., Hesketh, K., Johnstone, A., de la Torre-Luque, A. and McCrorie, P. (2026), Early outdoor play predicts trajectories of child mental health in a population-based cohort. J Child Psychol Psychiatr. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70175  
  
  
• Widnall, E., Robinson, H., Wang, L. et al. Prevention and postvention guidance relating to self-harm and suicide for UK educational and youth organisations: a systematic review of grey literature. BMC Public Health 26, 1376 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-27052-6  
  
  
• Price A, Furukawa E, Bellato A, Aggensteiner P, Bellringer M, Cattel C, Cortese S, Daley D, Döpfner M, Donno F, Groom M, Kaiser A, Kini-Seery C, Kostyrka-Allchorne K, Kuntsi J, Kyle S, Liddle E, Michelini G, Nordby E, Peres N, Ruzive T, Salimi A, Sjöwall D, Sonuga-Barke E, Wenger J, Newlove-Delgado T
  Consensus Statement on Digital Health and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder by the European Network for ADHD (EUNETHYDIS): Modified Delphi Study
  J Med Internet Res 2026; 28: e85638. https://doi.org/10.2196/85638   
  
  
• Alan Lovell, Kieran Becker, Maxwell S. Barnish, Tom Arthur, Joelle Kirby, Helen F. Dodd, Vijaya Raghavan, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Anna Price
  Umbrella Review: Mental Health Interventions for Autistic Children and Adolescents: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Participatory Equity Synthesis, JAACAP Open, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2026, Pages 399-427, ISSN 2949-7329, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaacop.2026.02.004  
  
  
• Bryant, E. F., Hallet, D., Nielsen, E., Evans, T., Rees-Lee, J., Riley, N., Newlove-Delgado, T., & Price, A. (in press). An evidence-based AI virtual assistant for young people with ADHD: Co-design and prototype development. JMIR Formative Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/85013  
  
  
• Bryant, E.F., Rogers, M., Bond, A. et al. Programmes that Integrate Parenting Support and Financial Well-Being Support: A Systematic Scoping Review. J of Prevention (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-026-00930-w  
  
  
• Bryant, E., Holt, S., Kelman, C., Gudka, R., Wenger, J., Cordwell, K., Moore, D., Bjornstad, G. & Russell, A., (2025) “Diverse minds, shared spaces: navigating neurodiversity in public engagement with research events”, Research for All 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.09.1.08 
  
  
• Bryant, E.F., Moore, D. & Russell, A.E. What Next for Trauma-Informed Education Research? A Research Prioritisation Exercise with Young People as Informants. Journ Child Adol Trauma 18, 803–813 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-025-00711-3  
  
  
• Kelman, C. R., O. C. Ukoumunne, D. Moore, J. T. Coon, K. Cordwell, and A. Russell. 2026. “ Reliability, Validity, and Acceptability of the Scope Classroom Observation Code (SCOC) to Identify Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-Related Behaviours in UK Primary Schools.” Psychology in the Schools 0: e70188. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.70188.  
  
  
• Kelman CR, Thompson Coon J, Ukoumunne OC, et alWhat types of objective measures have been used to assess core ADHD symptoms in children and young people in naturalistic settings? A scoping reviewBMJ Open 2024;14:e080306. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-080306   
   
• Gudka, R., McGlynn, E., Lister, K. et al. Correction: Digital health interventions with healthcare information and self-management resources for young people with ADHD: a mixed-methods systematic review and narrative synthesis. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 34, 3323 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02727-4 
  
  
• Anna Price, Kieran Becker, Rebecca Gudka, John Headley Ward, Jane R Smith, Faraz Mughal, GJ Melendez-Torres, Emma Pitchforth and Tamsin Newlove-Delgado. Improving healthcare information for young people with ADHD in general practice: a qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice 2025; 75 (758): e586-e596. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0755   
  
  
• Gudka, R., Salimi, A., Gaywood, R., Hendrick, D., Becker, K., Medzinskii, O., Mughal, F., Melendez-Torres, G.J., Smith, J., Newlove-Delgado, T. and Price, A. (2025), Co-Producing Resources to Help Improve Access to Primary Care for Young People With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Health Expectations, 28: e70200. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70200  
  
  
• Gudka, R., Becker, K., Newlove-Delgado, T. et al. Provision of digital health interventions for young people with ADHD in primary care: findings from a survey and scoping review. BMC Digit Health 2, 71 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00129-1
  
  
• Ward J, McBride A, Gudka R, et al. Wider health needs in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from lived and professional experience: a qualitative framework analysis. BMJ Open 2024;14:e083539. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-083539    
  
  
• Russell, A. E., Benham-Clarke, S., Ford, T., Eke, H., Price, A., Mitchell, S., Newlove-Delgado, T., Moore, D., & Janssens, A. (2023). Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK: Secondary analysis of qualitative data from the CATCh-uS mixed-methods study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 941–959. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12613  
  
  
• Armitage, J.M., Newlove-Delgado, T., Ford, T., McManus, S. and Collishaw, S. (2025), Characteristics of children with a psychiatric disorder in 1999, 2004 and 2017: an analysis of the national child mental health surveys of England. J Child Psychol Psychiatr, 66: 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14040