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Anxiety,Depression

ATTEND

Calling for participants until

01 Jun 2026

Participant type

Adolescents,Open to: Carer/family

Rewards

£15 Voucher given for each set of completed questionnaires received.

Overview

A mindfulness-based approach for adolescent non-responders to first-line treatments of depression and their carers: establishing feasibility of implementation and delivery

Summary

What are we trying to find out?

We have developed a new treatment, 'Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers' (MAC), in which young people and parent/carers learn to recognise unhelpful patterns of thoughts and feelings and to find new ways of dealing with distress. 

Through this study, we want to know if the new treatment, MAC can help young people and their families. MAC is not usually offered in Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). To see if the MAC treatment works well, and to understand how it works, we need to recruit about 480 young people across the country to the study.

Taking part in this study involves:

-  Young people will be selected at random to either receive mindfulness in a group session for 8 weeks (lasting 1.5 hours) in Devon in       person / online or continue with their usual care

-  Parent/carers of participating young people will be invited to attend a separate parent/carer mindfulness group

-  Completing online questionnaires about your health and wellbeing at the start, 4 and 12 months later (90 minutes)

-  Every two weeks, completing a shorter online questionnaire (5 minutes)

For more information, please take a look at the study website: https://attendstudy.org/

 

Email the study contact

 

  • CAMHS patients with a primary diagnosis of depression
  • Aged 15-18 years at the time of recruitment
  • Completed at least one NICE recommended treatment for depression
  • Not recovered sufficiently to be discharged, or who have subsequently relapsed and been re-referred 
  • A primary presenting problem of eating disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder or psychosis
  • Self-harming behaviour or substance misuse necessitating current active clinical management

Meet the researcher

Jemma Regan

Dr Jemma Regan is the Senior Research Practitioner at Devon Partnership NHS Trust and has been part of the team since 2019. She serves as the research lead for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) within Child and Family Health Devon, supporting studies across ADHD, social prescribing, autism, mindfulness-based CBT, low mood and anxiety.

Beyond CAMHS, Jemma also oversees research in adult services, including projects focused on dementia, depression, anxiety, disordered eating, bipolar disorder, low mood and autism. Her academic background includes a decade as a lecturer and researcher specialising in dementia at several universities.

Jemma Regan

Collaborators

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