A5029082884- Health disparities and outcomes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Community Health and Development
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
University College London
2018-2025
Department of Medical Sciences
2022
Bridge University
2022
University of Liverpool
2022
University of York
2022
UK adolescents and young adults are facing increasing rates of mental health problems extremely difficult economic circumstances. There is strong evidence that interventions to increase income during adolescence can mitigate conditions such as anxiety depression. However, policymakers lack quantified risk differences in the probability illness between different groups by which establish prospective scale mitigation. Here, we estimate using two longitudinal cohort studies: Millennium Cohort...
Background The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and physical distancing measures are expected to have far-reaching consequences on population health, particularly in already disadvantaged groups. These include changes health impacting behaviours (such as exercise, sleep, diet alcohol use) which important drivers of inequalities. We sought add the rapidly developing empirical evidence base investigating impacts such behavioural outcomes. Methods Using data from five nationally representative...
BackgroundDisadvantage in early childhood (ages 0–5 years) is associated with worse health and educational outcomes adolescence. Evidence on the clustering of these adverse by household income scarce generation adolescents born since turn millennium. We aimed to describe association between physical health, psychological distress, smoking behaviour, obesity, at age 17 years, including patterning five quintiles.MethodsIn this population-based, retrospective cohort study, we used data from...
School-mandated exclusion, or school absence, is on the increase in England. Earlier analyses focused characteristics of children, rather than relationship with school. Using Millennium Cohort Study, we explore between exclusion/school absence and satisfaction. The Study a UK birth cohort study around 19,000 children born at start twenty-first century includes measures relating to satisfaction, including liking school, being interested happy. We ask: What are exclusion risk factors?...
Schools across the UK were mostly closed from March to July 2020 due Covid-19. Therefore, parents and children found themselves thrust into a prolonged period of home-schooling. In this study, (N = 2,122) reported on their children's 3,230) home-schooling experiences its impacts academic progress. Parental reports suggest that spent around 3 hours each weekday doing schoolwork at home. Children enrolled in private secondary schools received 4 virtual lessons teachers, while state school just...
Abstract Introduction In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, upstream interventions that tackle social determinants health inequalities have never been more important. Evaluations cash transfer trials failed to capture comprehensively impacts such systems might on population through inadequate design themselves and failure implement consistent, thorough research measures can be used in microsimulations model long-term impact. this article, we describe process developing a generic, adaptive...
Introduction Living in an area with high levels of child poverty predisposes children to poorer mental and physical health. ActEarly is a 5-year research programme that comprises large number interventions (>20) citizen science co-production embedded. It aims improve the health well-being families living two areas UK deprivation; Bradford West Yorkshire, London Borough Tower Hamlets. This protocol outlines meta-evaluation (an evaluation evaluations) from systems perspective, where...
This study uses longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (N = 13,277) to examine childhood and early adolescence factors that predict weapon involvement in middle adolescence, which this is exemplified by having carried or used a weapon. It finds experiences of low family income domestic abuse between parents at age 17 years. Other predictors include externalizing problems self-harm adolescence. Further adolescent behaviors are own substance use, peer school exclusion, high...
Abstract Background Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have included lockdowns and social distancing with considerable disruptions people’s lives. These changes may particularly impacted on those mental health problems, leading a worsening of inequalities in behaviours which influence health. Methods We used data from four national longitudinal British cohort studies (N=10,666). Respondents reported (psychological distress anxiety/depression symptoms) (alcohol, diet, physical activity,...
Background There is a need for causally stronger research on the association between child mental health and school exclusion truancy. This study examines truancy in relation to both conduct emotional problems considers these as predictors outcomes of Method The sample included 15,236 individuals from Millennium Cohort Study, UK longitudinal birth cohort study. Conduct were assessed childhood adolescence (age 7, 11, 14 17 years), reports collected at age 11 14. Fixed effect analyses used....
BACKGROUND: This study examines school exclusion and truancy in relation to both conduct emotional problems. It considers these mental health problems as predictors outcomes of truancy.METHOD: The sample included 15,236 individuals from the Millennium Cohort Study, a UK longitudinal birth cohort study. Using subscales Strengths Difficulties Questionnaire, were assessed through childhood adolescence (age 3, 5, 7, 11, 14 17 years), reports collected at age 11 14. RESULTS: Conduct during...
Abstract Introduction In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, upstream interventions that tackle social determinants health inequalities have never been more important. Evaluations cash transfer trials failed to capture comprehensively impacts such systems might on population through inadequate design themselves and failure implement consistent, thorough research measures can be used in microsimulations model long-term impact. this article, we describe process developing a generic, adaptive...
Abstract Introduction Living in an area with high levels of child poverty predisposes children to poorer mental and physical health. ActEarly is a 5-year research programme that comprises large number interventions (>20) citizen science co-production embedded. It aims improve the health well-being families living two areas UK deprivation; Bradford West Yorkshire, London Borough Tower Hamlets. This protocol outlines meta-evaluation (an evaluation evaluations) from systems perspective,...
Despite the pervasiveness of cyber crime victimisation, knowledge is limited regarding prevalence, characteristics and pathways offenders. The present study examines predictors self-reported engagement in middle adolescence a large (N=13,277) longitudinal dataset from UK Millennium Cohort Study. We adopted an ecological systems approach to examine range multicausal, intersecting factors across individual, familial, psychosocial environmental systems. overall prevalence offending (account...
Published by The Lancet Public Health, April 2023
ABSTRACT Background Early childhood poverty is associated with poorer health and educational outcomes in adolescence. However, there limited evidence about the clustering of these adverse by income group. Methods We analysed five at age 17 known to limit life chances – psychological distress, self-assessed ill health, smoking, obesity, poor achievement using data from longitudinal UK Millennium Cohort Study (N=15,245). compared how single multiple were distributed across quintiles household...