Systematic reviews

Introduction to Systematics Reviews

If you want to learn about systematic reviews, please feel free to register for this free webinar by Wiley here to listen to the recordings of the talk.

Childhood onset chizophrenia:

  1. Kennedy E, Kumar A, Datta SS (2007) Antipsychotic medications for childhood onset schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2007 33(5):1082-1083. DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbm080
  1. Kennedy E, Kumar A, Datta SS (2007) Antipsychotic medications for childhood onset schizophrenia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. Jul 18;(3):CD004027. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004027.pub2

Adolescents with psychosis:

Our systematic review on psychosis interventions in adolescents with psychosis, published in 2020, became a featured review of the Cochrane Library. It has four separate visual abstracts that will provide you with the review’s key findings in a few minutes. Click on the picture below to access the feature article and the visual abstracts.

ACAMH Learn is a new multi-disciplinary knowledge hub from the charity The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Lots of free educational material is available from ACAMH Learn (click on the link) for anyone interested in learning about children’s mental health. ACAMH is a UK based charity and published some of the highest impact journals in the field of children’s mental health.

A two-part lecture on the management of psychosis in children and adolescents can accessed from ACAMH Learn. The links to these lectures are given below:

Lecture 1 covers the diagnosis of psychosis in children and adolescents and can be accessed here.

Lecture 2 covers the role and evidence base of pharmacological treatment and psychological treatment methods for children and adolescents with psychosis and can be accessed here.

  1. Daruvala R, Kumar A, Datta SS, (2021) Do Psychological Interventions Work for Psychosis in Adolescents?Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47 (3), 692-694. DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa132
  2. Datta SS, Daruvala R, Kumar A (2020) Psychological interventions for psychosis in adolescents. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD00953. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd009533.pub2
  3. Datta, S.S., Imran, S., Kumar, A., Das, D., Jacob, R. (2014) Preventing side effects of antipsychotic medications Minerva Psichiatrica 55(3):143-151. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84951943847&partnerID=MN8TOARS
  1. Datta, S.S., Kumar, A., Wright, S.D., Furtado, V.A., Russell, P.S. (2014) Evidence base for using atypical antipsychotics for psychosis in adolescents. Schizophr Bull. 2014 Mar;40(2):252. DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbt196
  2. Kumar, A., Datta, S.S., Wright, S.D., Furtado, V.A., Russell, P.S. (2013) Atypical antipsychotics for psychosis in adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. Oct 15. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009582.pub2