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Using health and well-being data to support improvements in mental health in schools
Welcome to the SHINE December 2022 Update
- A look back at 2022!
- SHINE Webinar 9 recording and resource now available:
- SHINE engagement panels
- Resources for practitioners
- Events
- Research projects - Get involved!
- Merry Christmas!
A look back at 2022!
SHINE Webinar 9 recording and resource now available:
"Young people's responses to and engagement with e-cigarettes and their broader marketing"
Thank you to Dr Marissa Smith for an excellent presentation on e-cigarettes and their marketing to young people. A lively discussion was enjoyed by attendees. The recording and associated resource can now be accessed by clicking on the green button.
SHINE School Engagement Groups
We are setting up a Pupil Advisory Group to ensure that our work is grounded in the voices of the whole school community.
We can come to you! Do you have either a class, a HWB pupil committee, or a Mental Health Ambassador group who would like to test-drive our SHINE Interactive Data Dashboard? Mary, our research assistant, will be happy to come out to your school to lead an interactive session on health and wellbeing data (Please contact Mary.Wilson@glasgow.ac.uk)
The SHINE Teachers' Panel
We were delighted to hold the first SHINE teachers' panel meeting over 2 sessions. 15 teachers have volunteered for the panel and gave us some excellent feedback on the SHINE resources and events offered, as well as our communications strategy. This will be used to further develop our offer.
Some excellent examples of sharing mental health data reports in the learning community were shared as were interesting and insightful perspectives on a proposal to measure staff wellbeing as part of a whole-school approach to wellbeing. We look forward to the next meeting!
Resources for practitioners
NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have released new guidelines on self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence:
Click here for Key advice for schools
Click here for full NICE guidelines document
Reverse The Trend Foundation is a children’s charity which uses Neuroscience to create healthy habits around mental and physical health in young people aged 4-18 through an evidence-based and evidence-gathering programme called Neuronimo.
Neuronimo takes around 6 minutes a day. Over 80,000 young people have completed the programme in N.Ireland. Significant outcomes including 97% engagement, 53% improvement in positive outlook and 74% improvement in health literacy were recorded.
Reverse The Trend Foundation are offering schools in Scotland the opportunity to take part in the Neuronimo 12-week programme. Rather than the full cost of the programme, only the Learning System licence fee will be invoiced which is £10 per child. Please note, this is a time sensitive offer. Licenses must be purchased before 1st February 2023 but they will have a 12-month expiry date.
Events
Get involved with the Now and Beyond charity's UK Mental Health & Wellbeing Festival for educational settings on 8th February 2023
Research projects - get involved!
"New study - SOCITS: SOCial sITuational Systems approach to measuring influences on adolescent mental health.
The SOCITS project will create a new method for researchers, counsellors, teachers, and young people to do research about adolescent mental health. Looking at SOCial, sITuational Systems is what we call the SOCITS approach. SOCITS will help to understand the reasons for things like loneliness, stress and poor mental health.
The SOCITS study will involve developing health surveys that are tailored to each individual school. Rather than using generic loneliness or stress questionnaires, SOCITS will ask about the places and social situations in and around the school, and study how these situations affect mood and feelings.
SOCITS will involve research interviews with young people about their school; workshops for young people, teachers and researchers; and school surveys. In addition to receiving a report on the survey findings, each participating school will have the support of a data analyst to identify a range of options for health improvement interventions and their likely effect on mental health.
Interviews would start in early 2023 to plan for tailored school surveys in the 2023-2024 academic session. If your school would be interest in taking part, please get in touch with Claire.Goodfellow@glasgow.ac.uk
Wishing you all a wonderful, festive break!
The SHINE Team
Dawn Haughton
Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network (SHINE) Manager
E-mail: Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk
Web: www.gla.ac.uk/shine
Twitter: @ScotlandSHINE
