A blog about the benefits and practicalities of engaging with young people in the process of undertaking child and youth mental health research.
Tag: children and young people
Picturing mental health: what sort of images are the right ones?
A blog about responsibility and challenges when using images to communicate mental health research.
Teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) in schools
Cochrane UK run talks and workshops in secondary schools, teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) and critical thinking for years 9-13.
Chronic pain in children and adolescents: is there evidence that drugs work?
Pain researcher Emma Fisher looks at the evidence on the benefits and harms of painkilling drugs for children and teens with chronic pain.
Supporting children and young people’s mental health: a call for change
Emily Chapman calls for better understanding and support for children and young people with mental health difficulties.
Honey for cough in children: can it help?
Honey for cough? Cochrane UK's Senior Fellow in General Practice, Lynda Ware, looks into honey and at the latest evidence.
Schools Teaching Awareness of Randomised Trials (START). Can understanding trials really be child’s play?
Sandra Galvin and Shaun Treweek blog about the START competition that challenges children in Ireland's primary schools to become trialists and reflects on what they have achieved.
Later school start times: better for students’ education, health and wellbeing?
Emma Plugge looks at the evidence on later school start times for supporting students' education and their health and wellbeing.
Vitamin A supplementation for children: has the WHO got it right?
Sarah Rayfield, Speciality Registrar in Public Health, looks at the latest evidence on vitamin A supplementation in children living in low and middle income countries
Molluscum Contagiosum: what to do about this skin infection?
Lynda Ware blogs about Cochrane evidence on treatments for molluscum contagiosum, a common skin infection
Asthma in schools: Could teaching teachers save lives?
GP Dr Robin Carr discusses the latest Cochrane evidence on whether asthma education for teachers and other school staff could improve the care of children with asthma in schools
Teaching kids to assess goopy health claims
In this blog for our #UnderstandingEvidence series, Matt Oxman talks about the Informed Health Choices project, which helps children sort the wheat from the chaff of evidence about treatment effects