What research in child and adolescent mental health should Kavli Trust fund? Have your say!

Kavli Trust will be allocating new mental health research grants in 2024, and invites patients, carers and mental health professionals to give their opinion into where this funding should be prioritised.

“By completing the survey you will impact the decision on how the Kavli Trust research grants will be spent,” says Programme Manager in The Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research, Jan-Ole Hesselberg.

You participate by filling out a simple digital survey by December 4.

How to participate:

• Find the survey here: What research should Kavli Trust Fund?
• In the survey you will be asked to rank identified evidence gaps according to what you think is the most important.
• A list of 39 evidence gaps are presented in the survey.
• From these, each participant can select eight of their preferred areas of research.
• You will also be asked to give your age and user group (patient, carer or health professional)

Deadline for submission: 4th December 2023

Important user involvement

The evidence gaps have been identified by experts in the field of child and adolescent mental health. The next step is to find which of these evidence gaps that will be prioritised in the call for proposals.

Input from the user groups will form the foundation for which evidence gaps are to be included in the call for proposals for 2024, which will be announced in December this year.

“We want the research to be relevant to the society and the results to benefit the different user groups. Therefore, we hope that both patients, their relatives and health professionals will contribute with their knowledge and experience, and provide input regarding which evidence gaps funding from the Kavli Trust will contribute to close,” Hesselberg says.