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Parents taking part in OPTIMA are invited to complete a joint drawing task with their child; ‘Etch-A-Sketch Online’ (ESO). This research task is based on one that used the traditional Etch-A-Sketch toy and has been developed for use in online research by Dr Bonamy R. Oliver and her team at UCL1. ESO enables researchers to […]

Good quality health research will involve members of the public to ensure that the work is relevant and valuable to potential beneficiaries; this is called patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE). It is not the same as recruiting volunteers to take part in research as participants. It is more about doing research with members

Several child health services, which are supporting OPTIMA, are using an online portal called myHealthE. It is a new secure NHS digital platform developed to update the way Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services collect health information about young people who are in contact with their services. Instead of asking parents to complete paper questionnaires

If you have recently been referred to a service for support regarding your child’s behaviour, it may have been suggested you attend some form of parent training. This can often be the first point of intervention for those seeking specialist support for their child(ren), especially as many face long waiting times for a full clinical

From May to September 2021, we ran a pilot and feasibility study of the OPTIMA programme. This was designed to find out if we could successfully recruit parents to the OPTIMA trial and also to test out whether the way we plan to run the trial would be acceptable to parents. Forty-eight families took part