LifeSim Mental Health

Long-term modelling of adolescent mental health problems and interventions using the LifeSim platform, including a “ready reckoner” tool for estimating the lifetime benefits and cost savings of addressing different problems and their childhood determinants.

Outputs

• Ready reckoner tool

• Bates et al. (2025). Value in Health. Estimating the lifetime costs and benefits of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management intervention using data from 30 months follow up of the STARS Trial. 

• Bates et al. (2024). European Journal of Public Health. Estimated lifetime impact of a school-based intervention for mental health: A microsimulation study.

Summaries for young people

• Lifetime benefits of scrapping two-child limit
• What would be the long-term benefits of reducing early childhood poverty?
• Long-term benefits of preventing six early childhood disadvantages
• Measuring wellbeing in adolescence
• Long-term benefits of a secondary school intervention for mental health.

Funding: Funded by UKRI "Long-Term Modelling Tools for Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Research" (Grant No. MMR/X002837/1, 2023 to 2026), NIHR School of Public Health, and NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research “AIM Bradford: Adolescent Interventions for Mental Health in Bradford“ (Award ID: NIHR205448, 2024 to 2029).