3S-YP: Our Research

Factors that affect clinical youth engagement in digital mental health research: a qualitative sub-study nested within a prospective cohort study

Bye, A., Wilson-Lemoine, E., Trevillion, K. et al. Factors that affect clinical youth engagement in digital mental health research: a qualitative sub-study nested within a prospective cohort study. BMC Med Res Methodol 25, 118 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02571-9
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Cohort profile: The Social media, smartphone use and Self-harm in Young People (3S-YP) study–A prospective, observational cohort study of young people in contact with mental health services

Bye A, Carter B, Leightley D, Trevillion K, Liakata M, Branthonne-Foster S, et al. (2024) Cohort profile: The Social media, smartphone use and Self-harm in Young People (3S-YP) study – A prospective, observational cohort study of young people in contact with mental health services. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0299059.
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A multisite comparison using electronic health records and natural language processing to identify the association between suicidality and hospital readmission amongst patients with eating disorders

Cliffe, C., Cusick, M., Vellupillai, S., Shear, M., Downs, J., Epstein, S., Pathak, J., & Dutta, R. (2023). A multisite comparison using electronic health records and natural language processing to identify the association between suicidality and hospital readmission amongst patients with eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1–12.
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Observational prospective study of social media, smartphone use and self-harm in a clinical sample of young people: study protocol

Bye, A., Carter, B., Leightley, D., Trevillion, K., Liakata, M., Branthonne-Foster, S., Williamson, G., Zenasni, Z., & Dutta, R. (2023). Observational prospective study of social media, smartphone use and self-harm in a clinical sample of young people: study protocol. BMJ open, 13(2), e069748.
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Maximising the positive and minimising the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent

Leightley, D., Bye, A., Carter, B., Trevillion, K., Liakata, M., Branthonne-Foster, S., Liakata, M., Wood, A., Ougrin, D., Orben, A., Ford, T., & Dutta, R. (2022). Maximising the positive and minimising the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13.
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Temporal and diurnal variation in social media posts to a suicide support forum

Dutta, R., Gkotsis, G., Velupillai, S., Bakolis, I. & Stewart, R., 19 May 2021, In: BMC Psychiatry. 21, 1, p. 259-266 , 259.
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Social media, internet use and suicide attempts in adolescents

Sedgwick, R., Epstein, S., Dutta, R. & Ougrin, D., Nov 2019, In: Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 32, 6, p. 534-541.
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Characterisation of mental health conditions in social media using Informed Deep Learning

Gkotsis, G., Oellrich, A., Velupillai, S., Liakata, M., Hubbard, T. J. P., Dobson, R. J. B. & Dutta, R., 22 Mar 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 45141.
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Online media reporting of suicides: Analysis of adherence to existing guidelines

Utterson, M., Daoud, J. & Dutta, R., 1 Apr 2017, In: Psychiatrist. 41, 2, p. 83-86.
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The language of mental health problems in social media

Gkotsis, G., Oellrich, A., Hubbard, T., Dobson, R. JB., Liakata, M., Velupillai, S. & Dutta, R., 16 Jun 2016, The Third Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop (CLPsych). p. 63-73.
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