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Article History

Received: 26 September 2023

Accepted: 19 December 2023

First Online: 17 January 2024

Declarations

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: The study has been approved by the University of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Interdivisional Research Ethics Committee (Reference: R66068). Approval will be sought from the same ethics committee for any amendments to the protocol. Schools’ headteachers provide written agreement (online or on paper). Parents have the opportunity to opt their child out of the study. Written assent/consent is obtained from child/adult participants respectively. Opt-in parental consent is required for child qualitative interviews. Explicit child assent, and consent from parents, school staff and those involved in delivering the intervention, is obtained for audio recording of qualitative interviews. Sample consent forms are available from the corresponding author.

: Not applicable

: Cathy Creswell (C. C.) receives royalties for the book on which this intervention is based; however, none of the authors makes any financial gain from the intervention used in this study. Susan Spence (S. S.) owns the copyright for the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS) items but will not benefit financially from its use in this study. Tamsin Ford’s research group receives funding for research consultancy from Place2Be, a third sector organisation that provides mental health interventions and training in schools. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.