Publications by authors named "D M Cottrell"

Introduction: In England, increasing numbers of young people seek help from emergency healthcare services, such as ambulances and emergency departments, after they self-harm. One contributing factor is a lack of meaningful and available community-based alternative sources of support for self-harm. It is not clear what helps young people in this context, how or why.

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Objective: Self-harm is common in adolescents and a major public health concern. Evidence for effective interventions that stop repetition is lacking. This individual-participant-data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) aimed to provide robust estimates of therapeutic intervention effects and explore which treatments are best suited to different subgroups.

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Article Synopsis
  • This study looked at how to predict if young people will commit crimes by using special computer programs called machine learning models.!
  • They tested these models on 679 kids aged 11-17 who were showing bad behavior and found that one of the models worked best at predicting future crimes.!
  • The results suggest that machine learning can help experts make better decisions about how to help these young people avoid trouble with the law.!
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Background: Self-harm is common in adolescents and a major public health concern. Evidence for effective interventions is lacking. An individual patient data meta-analysis has the potential to provide more reliable estimates of the effects of therapeutic interventions for self-harm than conventional meta-analyses, to explore which treatments are best suited to certain groups.

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