This work was undertaken with the support of DECIPHer, one of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Public Health Centres of Excellence. We thank the ALPHA young people’s public input advisory group based in DECIPHer and the parents who attended the parenting PPI session in Bargoed, Wales.
Contributions of authors
Deborah M Caldwell (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8014-7480) (Senior Lecturer in Public Health) co-conceived the project, co-led and contributed to the systematic review and components analysis, conducted intervention-level NMAs and drafted the report.
Sarah R Davies (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-7826) (Deputy Managing Editor, Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems group) co-led and contributed to the systematic review and component analysis and commented on the draft report.
Joanna C Thorn (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8962-2428) (Research Fellow) led the economic evaluation, drafted Chapter 8 and commented on report drafts.
Jennifer C Palmer (Senior Research Associate) and Paola Caro (PhD student) contributed to the systematic review and commented on report drafts.
Sarah E Hetrick (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2532-0142) (Associate Professor of Youth Mental Health) co-conceived the project, contributed to the systematic review and components analysis, and commented on report drafts.
David Gunnell (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0829-6470) (Professor of Epidemiology) co-conceived the project and commented on report drafts.
Sumayya Anwer (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-0399) (Research Fellow) contributed to component-level NMAs.
José A López-López (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9655-3616) (Lecturer in Psychological Methods) contributed to intervention-level NMAs and commented on the report.
Clare French (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6943-7353) (Senior Research Associate) contributed to the systematic review and commented on the report.
Judi Kidger (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1054-6758) (Senior Lecturer in Public Health) co-conceived the project, contributed to the components analysis and commented on the draft report.
Sarah Dawson (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6682-063X) (Information Specialist) provided guidance on and executed the electronic database searches.
Rachel Churchill (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1751-0512) (Professor in Evidence Synthesis) co-conceived the project and provided guidance and advice on project direction and the component analysis.
James Thomas (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4805-4190) (Professor of Social Research and Policy) co-conceived the project and commented on the report.
Rona Campbell (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1099-9319) (Professor of Public Health Research) co-conceived the project and commented on the report.
Nicky J Welton (Professor in Statistical and Health Economic Modelling) co-conceived the project, contributed to intervention-level NMAs, led component-level NMAs, supervised the economic evaluation, drafted sections of the report and provided comments on the report.
Publication
Caldwell DM, Davies SR, Hetrick SE, Palmer JC, Caro P, López-López JA, et al. School-based interventions to prevent anxiety and depression in children and young people: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Lancet Psychiatry 2019;6:1011–20.
Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the PHR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the PHR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care.
