Using health and well-being data to support improvements in mental health in schools

Welcome to the SHINE April 2022 Update

Dear All,

We hope you had a lovely Easter break. We are pleased to bring you the SHINE April newsletter, which includes:

SHINE Webinar Series - invitation to register for Webinar 8
SHINE Development Officers - new webpage celebrating the legacy
European Public Health Week May 2022 - A healthy and health literate youth - invitation to participate and register for the event
New SHINE affiliate research study: CLOCK OFF - invitation to participate
HBSC Survey 2022 recruitment progress
Wider research, events and resources for schools

SHINE Webinar Series: invitation to register for webinar 8

Webinar 8 : Thursday 19th May 2022 4 -5 pm

"Interpreting and implementing SHINE mental health data reports successfully in the school setting"

what does it mean for our school community?
how do we use it in the school setting?
how do we share it with all stakeholders?

This webinar will offer research expertise to support the successful interpretation of your SHINE Mental Health Survey data report. We will share our learning from SHINE school case studies and best practice regarding a whole-school approach to sharing the data by including some focus on the implementation of the data reports in the school setting. As ever, there will be opportunities to ask questions, share your experiences of using the data reports and network with fellow SHINE practitioners.

We hope you will join us!

Click here to register

SHINE Development Officers - new webpage to celebrate the legacy

Click here to see the new webpage

The SHINE Development Officers' secondments with SHINE have now ended. Their enthusiasm, commitment and contribution to SHINE far surpassed our expectations, leading to an extremely productive period of development for the network. The SHINE team would like to thank the development officers, their headteachers and Local Authorities for supporting this initiative.

To share the success and learning with the wider network, we have created a page on the SHINE website to celebrate the legacy of their work. We will add excerpts of the final reports and resources created to this webpage later in May and schools members will be able to access the full resources via their school digital folders

European Public Health Week event registration:

A healthy and health literate youth

European Public Health Week begins on Monday 16^th May, 2022. Researchers in the SPHSU, are running a virtual event for young people from S1 – S3 to explore the theme: “A healthy and health literate youth”.

The event will be hosted by health researchers and a panel of 6 to 10 young people. We would like to invite an audience of young people to join the discussion. The purpose of the event will be to explore the following with young people:

What is health literacy?
Why is health literacy important? (Understanding how behaviour links to health & interpreting health data)
How do YP engage with health information and where do they go for this?
How confident do young people feel about discussing health issues and with whom?

Schools - please share this opportunity with your young people. Teachers with YP interested in being panellists, please contact Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk by 29th April 2022. Attendees can register using the link here.

Please join us on Mon 16th May 2022 14.00 - 15.15pm

Click here for the registration link for the event

Full details of the event, practicalities for schools and information for YP panel members

New SHINE affiliate research study: CLOCK OFF Invitation to participate

Researchers at the University of Glasgow invite you to take part in the CLOCK OFF study which has received ethical approval. The purpose of the study is to develop and refine a peer-led school-based programme to reduce night-time interactive electronic device and social media use among young people (12-13 years). We will work with young people, school staff and parents/guardians/carers to develop this programme in both Scotland and Wales. Full details about the study and what it would mean for your school are available here . A brief summary is also available in a short video for young people.

As a first step, we are hoping to recruit 20-30 young people ( 2-4 young people per school) from Scotland and Wales to take part in a four-week programme ( 4 one and half hour twilight sessions) of workshops.

At the moment we just need to know if you are keen to be involved in this exciting study; you can contact Anne Martin the lead on the study direct Anne.Martin@glasgow.ac.uk or email Dawn Haughton at Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk.

HBSC survey 2022 recruitment progress

Data collection for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is well underway. Thank you to all the schools who have already taken the survey. Recruitment and data collection have been extended into the summer term so there is still time to reply if your school has received an invitation or if you still have to take the survey. SHINE member schools who take part will be provided with a school-level health and wellbeing data report (subject to minimum numbers) to support health and wellbeing planning and activities within the school.

The HBSC Scotland survey is part of a large WHO Collaborative international study and has been conducted every four years since 1990. This survey round will have a special focus on mental health and wellbeing, and new questions on COVID-19 exposure & impact.

Wider research, events and resources for schools

SHARE ( Scottish Health Research register & Biobank)
Culturally Engaged and Sensitive Approaches to Mental Health Education (CESAME) - summary report
Children in Scotland & Youth Link: Pandemic Impact Survey report 2022
Sexuality Education +: How Young People are living, & learning about, relationships and sexuality. Call for participants in Edinburgh + Lothians
Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
Anna Freud's LGBTQI+ and Mental Health booklet
Young Minds 2021 Impact Report
Academic papers related to CYP health behaviour and mental health & wellbeing

Scottish Health Research Register & Biobank

Join SHARE – Help us save lives and improve Scotland’s future health.

SHARE is the Scottish Health Research Register and Biobank. It is a database of volunteers who are interested in assisting research for improving health. Please sign up today to be contacted for future projects. You will also have the opportunity to allow researchers to use any leftover blood from routine blood tests for genetic studies. To register or find out more please visit www.registerforshare.org Watch our videos on YouTube

For further details and to register, click on the QR code

Culturally Engaged and Sensitive Approaches to Mental Health Education (CESAME) - summary report

CESAME, the Culturally Engaged and Sensitive Approaches to Mental Health Education have produced a summary report from their work on the mental health needs of young people from ethnically diverse groups during their transition from primary to secondary school. you can read the report here: https://futurehealthandwellbeing.org/cesame

Children in Scotland &Youth Link: Pandemic Impact Survey Report 2022

The Cross Party Group on Children and Young People ran the Pandemic Impact Survey between Dec 2021 - Jan 2022 to understand the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic to service delivery and on the children, young people and families. To read the report, click here: Click to read the Pandemic Impact Survey 2022 report

Sexuality Education +: How Young People are living, & learning about, relationships and sexuality. Project call for participants

Call for participants – school-based research into young people’s views on learning about relationships and sexuality

We are a group of researchers from the University of Cardiff and the Institute of Education, University College London. We are working with the children’s charity NSPCC on an exciting new project called Sexuality Education +: An exploratory research project into how young people are living, and learning about, relationships and sexuality.

It will explore how and where young people (aged 11-17) are learning about relationships and sexuality related topics (e.g. in school, online, at home, in peer groups etc), how they are seeking advice and how they can be better supported in doing so.

We would like to use schools all around the UK and are keen to find schools in or near to Edinburgh where we have a base for carrying out the research.

It would involve schools identifying and then releasing some students from a double lesson to take part in a creative workshop, in school time between May and June, and potentially also for follow up one to one interviews. We would be looking for about four diverse groups of 3-6 young people (max 24 students). The exact year groups we might use depends on the other sites and the school’s preference.

Generally young people seem to really enjoy the opportunity to reflect on their lives and have their views taken seriously. In addition they learn about professional research processes and practices. So overall we hope it would be a good experience for them. The ultimate aim is to improve support for young people, including in education, so we hope it would have indirect benefit for schools.

Please get in touch if you think you could help: Dr Sara Bragg s.bragg@ucl.ac.uk

Mental Health Awareness Week 2022

The Mental Health Foundation have announced that the theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (9-15 May 2022) will be Loneliness.

Loneliness affects millions of people in the UK every year, and it has had a significant impact on mental health over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 will raise awareness of the impact of loneliness on our mental wellbeing, as well as the practical steps that can be taken to address it.

You can learn more about the campaign, and how you can contribute to its impact, here.

Anna Freud Centre’s ‘LGBTQI+ and Mental Health’ Booklet

The Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families has produced a new booklet to help LGBTQI+ young people with their mental health. You can take a look at this new booklet here.

Young Minds Impact Report 2021

Young Minds have released their Impact Report for 2021. You can access this report, along with other updates from Young Minds here.

Academic Papers

“Am I really alive?”: Understanding the role of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in young LGBT+ people's suicidal distress. Marzetti, H., McDaid, L. & O’Connor, R. (2022). Social Science & Medicine.

Children’s human rights under COVID-19: Learning from children’s rights impact assessments. Tisdall, E. K. M. & Morrison, F. (2022). The International Journal of Human Rights.

COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and health. Long, E., Patterson, S., Maxwell, K., Blake, C., Pérez, R. B., Lewis, R., McCann, M., Riddell, J., Skivington, K., Wilson-Lowe, R. & Mitchell, K. (2022). Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Cross-Country and Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Population-Level Declines in Adolescent Life Satisfaction. Marquez, J., Inchley, J. & Long, E. (2022). Child Indicators Research.

Cross-national validation of the social media disorder scale: findings from adolescents from 44 countries. Boer, M., van den Eijnden, R. J. J. M., Finkenauer, C., Boniel-Nissim, M., Marino, C., Inchley, J., Cosma, A., Paakkari, L. & Stevens, G. W. J. M. (2022). Addiction.

Digital technologies to support adolescents with depression and anxiety: review. Bevan-Jones, R., Hussain, F., Agha, S., Weavers, B., Lucassen, M., Merry, S., Stallard, P., Simpson, S. & Rice, F. (2022). BJPsych Advances.

Effectiveness of the Strengthening Families Programme in the UK at preventing substance misuse in 10–14 year-olds: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Segrott, J., Gillespie, D., Lau, M., Holliday, J., Murphy, S., Foxcroft, D., Hood, K., Scourfield, J., Phillips, C., Roberts, Z., Rothwell, H., Hurlow, C. & Moore, L. (2022). BMJ Open.

International perspectives on social media use among adolescents: Implications for mental and social well-being and substance use. Boniel-Nissim, M., van den Eijnden, R. J. J. M., Furstova, J., Marino, C., Lahti, H., Inchley, J., Smigelskas, K., Vieno, A. & Badura, P. (2022). Computers in Human Behavior.

Loneliness in young people: a multilevel exploration of social ecological influences and geographic variation. Marquez, J., Goodfellow, C., Hardoon, D., Inchley, J., Leyland, A. H., Qualter, P., Simpson, S. A. & Long, E. (2022). Journal of Public Health.

Mental health and life satisfaction among 10-11-year-olds in Wales, before and one year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moore, G., Anthony, R., Angel, L., Hawkins, J., Morgan, K., Copeland, L., Murphy, S., Van Godwin, J. & Shenderovich, Y. (2022). BMC Public Health.

All the best,

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