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pPOD Research Group

pPOD is a group of researchers that works with young children and families to understand how early experiences can influence behaviour and development. The research covers a broad span of areas, from the development and testing of new and innovative interventions for families to biological research that seeks to best understand how different experiences can affect development. 

We are based mainly at Imperial College London, but work closely with colleagues in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter, Bath and at other Universities in London and The Netherlands.

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News

January 2019 - Children's four big ideas for their early school adjustment - read about our newest research here! 

December 2018 - Post-natal depression in dads and links to their teenage daughters - new research from the pPOD team here. 

October 2018 - Studying parent-infant interactions at the University of Gdańsk, Poland - read about it on our blog here.  

July 2018 - “Daddy Blues: Postnatal Depression and Fatherhood” from Mark Williams - Paul's thoughts here.

November 2017 - Thoughts from the CNWL Research Conference 2017 here.  

July 2017 – Read pPOD team’s thoughts on the International Attachment Conference 2017 here.

July 2017 - Marina and Rebecca attend the International ESCAP Congress in Geneva –
read about it here! 

June 2017 - We celebrate International Fathers’ Mental Health Day with a blog here.

May 2017 - Happy Start presented their research at NELFT R&D Day – read about it here. 

Rocking out in Austin: SRCD 2017 Biennial Meeting blog can be found right here.

The pPOD team were equally inspired on day 2 at MQ as day 1. Read all about the talks they heard here.

Check out day 1 at the MQ conference! A brief overview of the fantastic mental health research taking place across the globe! Blog found here

Two of the Healthy Start, Happy Start interveners have been blogging and presenting about being involved in a clinical research study. Find out more here.

The team attended the President's Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement last night. Find out here how they got on.

Ellen has written a blog about research investigating the effects of cannabis use during pregnancy. Check out the Mental Elf blog here.

How does the 'Future in Mind' plan support Mental Health Services for children and adolescents with Learning Disability. Find out more here.

Read highlights here from the collaborative 'Attachment Masterclass' pPOD ran with NOCLOR

Jill has been working in Queensland, find out more about her work here.

​A bit more from SRIP can be found here - very exciting to hear all this research about the perinatal period.

Click here to read about day 1 @ SRIP

When MIT met Imperial. Read all about their research collaberations here.
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Celebration Time! 100 families in the Healthy Start, Happy Start study! Find out more here.

We have been very busy training interveners in VIPP-SD for the HSHS study! See where we have been working here.

Highlights from the Begin Before Birth conference can be found here.

Check out what the pPOD team have been up to at the WAIMH conference: day 1 and 2 blog found here.

Find out about what went here in Whittington Health NHS Trust on International Clinical Trials day

pPOD have been visiting Leiden to link in with our colleagues about triadic interactions. Check out the blog here.

​New paper : The power of couple focused approaches in the perinatal period by pPOD’s Dr Camilla Rosan and Ellen Grimas discussing the need for better parental support in the perinatal period, including effective engagement with fathers. Check it out here 
 
Blog update: "What Causes Wellness? Research Priorities for Children and Young People". The pPOD team attended a Noclor event in March in which Sir Harry Burns reflected upon ‘wellbeing’ and the detrimental effect societal problems can have on the health of entire communities. Click here to read more, from pPODs newest member.

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Publications

2019 

O’Farrelly, C., Booth, A., Tatlow-Golden, M., & Barker, B. (2019). Reconstructing readiness: Young children’s priorities for their early school adjustment. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

2018

Gutierrez-Galve L, Stein A, Hanington L, Heron J, Lewis G, O'Farrelly C, Ramchandani PGet al., 2018, Association of Maternal and Paternal Depression in the Postnatal Period With Offspring Depression at Age 18 Years., JAMA Psychiatry

​Fear NT, Reed RV, Rowe S, Burdett H, Pernet D, Mahar A, Iversen AC, Ramchandani P, Stein A, Wessely Set al., 2018, Impact of paternal deployment to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and paternal post-traumatic stress disorder on the children of military fathers, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, Vol: 212, Pages: 347-355, ISSN: 0007-1250

Sethna V, Murray L, Edmondson O, Iles J, Ramchandani PG. (2018). Depression and playfulness in fathers and young infants: A matched design comparison study. J Affect Disord. 3;229:364-370.

Capron LE, Ramchandani PG, Glover V, 2018, Maternal prenatal stress and placental gene expression of NR3C1 and HSD11B2: The effects of maternal ethnicity, PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, Vol: 87, Pages: 166-172, ISSN: 0306-4530

O'Farrelly, C., Doyle, O., Victory, G., & Palamaro-Munsell, E. (2018). Shared reading in infancy and later development: Evidence from an early intervention. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 54, 69-83.
 
2017


Ramchandani PG, O'Farrelly C, Babalis D, Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, Byford S, Grimas ESR, Iles JE, van IJzendoorn MH, McGinley J, Phillips CM, Stein A, Warwick J, Watt HC, Scott Set al., 2017, Preventing enduring behavioural problems in young children through early psychological intervention (Healthy Start, Happy Start): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, TRIALS, Vol: 18, ISSN: 1745-6215
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Sethna V, Perry E, Domoney J, Iles J, Psychogiou L, Rowbotham NEL, Stein A, Murray L, Ramchandani PG. Father-child interactions at 3-months and 2 years: contributions to children’s cognitive development at 2 years. Infant Mental Health Journal 2017 38(3):378-390.

Braithwaite EC, Murphy SE, Ramchandani PG, Hill J. Associations between biological markers of prenatal stress and infant negative emotionality are specific to sex. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2017 Sep 5;86:1-7

Barker B, Iles J, Ramchandani PG. Fathers, fathering and child psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology 2017 15:87-92.

Iles JE, Rosan C, Wilkinson E, Ramchandani PG. Adapting and developing a video-feedback intervention for co-parents of infants at risk of externalising behaviour problems (VIPP-Co): A feasibility study. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2017 Jul;22(3):483-499

Marcano Belisario JS, Doherty K, O'Donoghue J, Ramchandani P, Majeed A, Doherty G, Morrison C, Car J. A bespoke mobile application for the longitudinal assessment of depression and mood during pregnancy: protocol of a feasibility study. BMJ Open. 2017 May 29;7(5):e014469

Marcano-Belisario JS, Gupta AK, O'Donoghue J, Ramchandani P, Morrison C, Car J. Implementation of depression screening in antenatal clinics through tablet computers: results of a feasibility study. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2017 May 10;17(1):59

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Current projects

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Healthy Start, Happy Start
Healthy Start, Happy Start is a research study of a programme that aims to try to help parents with their children’s behaviour and development. The programme aims to help parents to understand better their child’s communication and behaviour and to learn different ways of reacting.  This is done through play and interaction sessions, where we meet with the parents and child and try out different ways of responding to common situations.  We record these sessions and then look at the recording with parents, discussing it as we go along.

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The ACORN Study
The ACORN study is a research study developing a group programme which aims to help reduce anxiety and stress in pregnant women. This group programme is for both pregnant women and their partners and involves three group sessions led by midwives.  The purpose of this research is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering this group intervention to reduce levels of anxiety in pregnant women. We are currently in the recruitment phase of this study and plan to recruit 60 women and their partners, where possible, to review the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention, when compared to standard NHS treatment.

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