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Dan Hayes

@danhayesphd.bsky.social

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Director Social Prescribing Youth Network, Deputy Director National Centre for Social Prescribing and Analysis, Senior Research Fellow @UCL_SBB UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/44018-daniel-hayes

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jul 16

Youth mental health difficulties have increased in prevalence (rather than better awareness) and key drivers likely include economic precarity, smartphone use, sleep quality and closure of youth services. An excellent piece of research led by @olademk.bsky.social

Jess Deighton @jess-deighton.bsky.social · Jul 15

Very important report out today from the Youth Futures Foundation exploring factors accounting for escalating mental health problems in young people. Lead by fantastic colleagues from the University of Manchester (@olademk.bsky.social et al). Report here: youthfuturesfoundation.org/what-we-do/f...

Understanding young people’s declining mental health - Youth Futures Foundation

Exploring drivers of worsening mental health among 14-24 year olds through a first-of-its-kind study for England

youthfuturesfoundation.org

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Jess Deighton @jess-deighton.bsky.social · Jul 15

Very important report out today from the Youth Futures Foundation exploring factors accounting for escalating mental health problems in young people. Lead by fantastic colleagues from the University of Manchester (@olademk.bsky.social et al). Report here: youthfuturesfoundation.org/what-we-do/f...

Understanding young people’s declining mental health - Youth Futures Foundation

Exploring drivers of worsening mental health among 14-24 year olds through a first-of-its-kind study for England

youthfuturesfoundation.org

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 29

First plenary: Tom Osborne: Accessible, community-based youth mental health at scale: what can Africa teach us?

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 29

Kicking off #ESCAP with some jazz

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Dr Dan O'Hare @edpsydan.bsky.social · Jun 28

Legends.

#Pride #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Tens of thousands defy Hungary’s ban on Pride in protest against Orbán

Crackdown on Pride is part of effort to curb democratic freedoms ahead of a hotly-contested election next year

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 28

After a long and quite traumatic train journey, have just arrived in #Strasbourg for the #ESCAP conference. Looking forward to some interesting talks #child and on #youth #mentalhealth, catching up with colleagues and some great French food and wine in a stunning location

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to announce that I have been appointed to Principal Research Fellow within @ucl-sbb.bsky.social. It’s an honor to work at such a great university with wonderful colleagues and a fantastic team. Very much looking forward to all the new social prescribing work we have planned.

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

Anyway I look forward to hearing about your further work on this over the coming months. Respectfully. Dan

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

I wouldn’t wasn’t to overly speculate if they were or not, but some may fall outside this benchmark as some of the assessment criteria are outside of the deign and researchers control.

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

I probably would urge a little caution on the subsequent ‘high quality’ studies point post review, we didn’t quality assess them as they weren’t included and the bar was very high/cautious...

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

Hi Lucy, thanks for your comments and was really interesting hearing the debate this morning. I agree it is a shame to not have included some of the more recent research, but unfortunately the nature of reviews are they are always have a cut off and need time to be reviewed and published 🧵

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

This suggests we should pay careful attention to what is being implemented.

Additionally, it’s also important to remember the impact of these interventions alone is often small, and should be part of a wider, whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

https://Importantly.it’s

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

Not all interventions are equal. Our analysis found that CBT-informed sessions, where young people learn to understand their thoughts and behaviours, as well as how to manage them, were significantly more effective at reducing anxiety symptoms than mindfulness-based classes…

As such….

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

Our findings, based on the most up-to-date evidence, show that whole-class sessions can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Although the effect is small on average for individuals, such small effects can be impactful once scaled up at a population level.

Importantly…

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 Paper alert 🚨 There’s a lot of debate at the moment around universal, interventions in schools. A thread 🧵

Our new meta-analysis, published today, shows they can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...

Findings discussed more below…

Frontiers | Universal, school-based, interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

IntroductionThere is debate into the impact of universal, school-based interventions to improve emotional outcomes. Previous reviews have only focused on anx...

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Apr 29

New paper out led by my fab PhD student @sarahhayward25 on collaborative relationships between #professionals and #parents of young people with #neurodisabilities

doi.org/10.1007/s404...

Developing Collaborative Relationships between Professionals and Parents of Children with Neurodisability: A Meta-Narrative Review - Current Developmental Disorders Reports

Purpose of Review Parents of children with complex neurodisabilities have multiple encounters with healthcare and disability professionals. Many parents view these encounters as unsatisfactory, citing...

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Apr 25

It’s great to see this finally out - our viewpoint and learning from implementing #socialprescribing in the #US

Social Biobehavioural Research Group @ucl-sbb.bsky.social · Apr 25

Two new publications today from our EpiArts Lab with University of Florida! 📣

We shine a light on the USA's unique & growing #SocialPrescribing movement 🔍

Check out our Viewpoint for @thelancetph.bsky.social & report featuring 23 examples from across the country 🌎

sbbresearch.org/social-presc...

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Mar 27

Can #socialprescribing be implemented in #schools for #pupils or who #lonely?

We are testing this across 12 schools nationally, testing its feasibility, acceptability and suitability (and are looking for more schools for next stage)

Protocol paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

INcreasing Adolescent social and Community supporT (INACT): Pilot study protocol

Background Social prescribing is a mechanism for connecting patients with non-medical forms of support within the community and has been shown to improve loneliness. Yet uptake from young people (YP)...

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Mar 25

What is the impact of youth sector proviso n on mental health? Check out our latest report commissioned by NCST

tinyurl.com/uhxmuu32

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Mar 19

Very excited to be developin best practice guidelines for #child and #youth #socialprescribing as part of this work

Social Biobehavioural Research Group @ucl-sbb.bsky.social · Mar 19

We also have exciting news to share this #SocialPrescribingDay – we've secured funding for SPYN!

Thank you to our advisory board, partners National Academy for Social Prescribing & Southbank Centre, and @uclenterprise.bsky.social.

Find out more in our newsletter 📩
mailchi.mp/ucl/spyn-sp-...

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Social Biobehavioural Research Group @ucl-sbb.bsky.social · Mar 12

Only one week until #SocialPrescribingDay! 📅

We'll be taking the opportunity to share some exciting updates 👀

Keep an eye on our socials & join the Social Prescribing Youth Network mailing list to be the first to know: sbbresearch.org/spyn/

Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Feb 28

We are looking for a #researchfellow / #trialmanager to come and work with us at @ucl-sbb.bsky.social on 2 exciting #socialprescribing #trials in #CAMHS and #schools

Link for further information here: shorturl.at/RFcdv

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jan 9

Really great work - looking forward to read in more detail