B3934 - InterPLAY Building a data-informed framework to understand how play influences childrens psycho-social and mental health outco - 30/11/2021

B number: 
B3934
Principal applicant name: 
Reinie Cordier | Northumbria University (United Kingdom)
Co-applicants: 
Dr Eduwin Pakpahan, Dr Jenny Gibson, Dr Lauren Parsons, Dr Sarah Wilkes-Gillan, Dr Natalie Munro, Dr Ryan Chen
Title of project: 
InterPLAY: Building a data-informed framework to understand how play influences children's psycho-social and mental health outco
Proposal summary: 

This project is designed to determine the associations between play, and social emotional and mental health outcomes in children to inform future empirical work around how play can be used to support children’s psycho-social development. The project will use four international cohort data sets to investigate how play is best theorised and measured in longitudinal cohort studies, develop data-driven models of the associations between play and social emotional and mental health outcomes in children, and evaluate whether those models require adapting for children with a mental health diagnosis.

Impact of research: 
The development of a data-driven framework is significant in three ways. First, it will inform play theory development and replace theories that are out of date. Second, it will develop our understanding of the relationship between children’s play experiences and later social, emotional and mental health outcomes. Third, the framework will inform targeted supports and interventions that prevent or minimise adverse psycho-social or mental health outcomes and improve quality of life for children and young people including those that are developmentally vulnerable.
Date proposal received: 
Monday, 29 November, 2021
Date proposal approved: 
Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
Keywords: 
Mental health - Psychology, Psychiatry, Cognition, Behaviour - e.g. antisocial behaviour, risk behaviour, etc., Developmental disorders - autism, Mental health, Speech/language problem, Childhood - childcare, childhood adversity, Development, psycho-social, play