Newsletter - October 2025

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Relationships in Good Hand Trial: Clinical and cost effectiveness of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy for abused and neglected young children and their parents. 

RIGHT Trial Recruitment Oct 2025

  • It's been a busy summer, and we have a few updates to share. 
  • Our recruitment targets have been met and randomisation into the trial is now closed. 
  • In total, we have had 180 referrals from our sites across Scotland, England and Wales and successfully randomised 130 children.
  • We also have an amazing retention rate of 80% 

We expect to be able to complete our last follow-up appointments by August 2026. 

 

 

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Our funder, NIHR, has extended the duration of our study now to January 2027.

This will allow research analyses to be completed and study findings to be disseminated to all stakeholders. 

We are planning several events across England, Scotland and Wales to share the results of our research with you - we will be in touch with further details later next year. 

 

ACHIEVING OUR OBJECTIVES 

Our participants and colleagues across our network of 22 UK sites are key to the success of our trial.

  • Our sites will continue to deliver intervention (DDP or SAU) to all participants currently within their 12 month follow-up period. 
  • The priority of our operations and CRN teams is now to ensure our retention rates remain high and we are able to create a complete dataset by our September 2026 deadline. This would allow for robust statistical analyses and meaningful conclusions to be drawn.  
  • We have several papers currently being prepared based on our preliminary findings.  We hope to be able to publish them soon. 

To achieve our objectives, we are also engaging with the wider public and policy makers. 

  • Our Youth Advisory Group has been working with us to develop a rating system for one of our assessments. The members of this group are care experienced young adults and their contribution has been invaluable. 
  • We have 'PPCI' groups (of parents and commissioners) that meet regularly in Scotland, England and Wales. Their task is to consider what Health and Social Care Commissioners and children and their families can do together to ensure care pathways are well established and adopted/fostered children get the services they need. 

 

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We would like to thank you for your interest and involvement in this first-of-its-kind randomised controlled clinical trial across children's social care services. 

 

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mentalhealth/projects/right/ 

right-trial@glasgow.ac.uk