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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 21h

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 (🧵)

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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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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 1h

OSF will be offline for several hours today, starting now. The team is rolling out the new interface!

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 13h

Oof I'm down a rabbit hole trying to parse this line in this article:

"According to a 2017 Fraser Institute report, the average after-tax income for a significant majority of independent school families is comparable to, or even slightly less than, the average income for public school families"

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Opinion: Setting the record straight on Alberta’s independent school funding

Independent school association takes issue with Don Braid column on government funding.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 21h

Reposting to show how I'm a moron, but differently than I thought.

Imputation does change things (estimates, but interestingly not really CIs). And the choice of glmm versus Bayesian doesn't matter tremendously (except that the latter takes orders of magnitude longer to run).

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 19h

This makes way more sense. TBH I worried there was an error in your original figure because the MI vs listwise deleted results shouldn’t be that perfectly close

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 19h

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 20h

Something something take my frequentist stats from my cold dead hands

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 1d

Postering today about @psych.peercommunityin.org at #OSCanada in Montreal!

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 2d

Applications now open for an international PhD program investigating child and adolescent health and wellbeing.

This provides funding for 4 students to do PhDs in Australia and Singapore, starting Jan 2026

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

BLUUUUE JAAAAAYS

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

I mean yeah, but still 😑

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

I mean it is objectively frustrating to do something extremely high-effort only to find out that the low-effort version produced the same result

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

But this is truly the kind of result that makes even the devotees wonder why TF we put in the effort.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

All I can say is you should make better choices next time. I’m full of excellent advice like this if you ever need it btw

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

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Maddy Frumkin (she/her) @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in a career in digital mental health, but not set on a clinical psych degree? Check out Dartmouth's PhD programs in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences and Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

lol every Ontario public school built in the mid 20th C is made of painted cinder block just like that. It feels like home just looking at it

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 2d

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 2d

I updated my CV yesterday. I have not done that for over a year--it used to be a scheduled monthly task. Kinda seems like a waste of time and energy. I've moved on, man.

A truck yard sign: My resume is just a list of things I never want to do again.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 3d

"But it matters that one of the first AI bots forced upon us as a new vision of the future is a woman. It matters that in the cultural imaginings of men, she’s a pliable virgin.

Society doesn’t want real human women."
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They want to replace women with AI

The 5-year anniversary of MYAM

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3d

it really is astounding that the 80s, 90s and early 2000s were spent on this unrelenting campaign to stop teenagers drinking, having sex and doing drugs but when it finally starts working then millenials and gen X start freaking out about it in a way that is clearly just pure projection. incredible.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 3d

My assumption being that status will be “with editor” until at least 1 person agrees to review. Which could take multiple weeks.

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