Photographs taken by people with memory loss shared a story that statistics never could. New research asks: what happens when those images go on show?
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This co-produced systematic review of 27 studies found that homelessness involves traumatic experiences affecting mental health, substance use, and leading to desensitisation. However, lived experience reviewers question whether the findings are new knowledge and critique the limited scope, inadequate explanation of co-production processes, and failure to address housing policy as the root cause of homelessness.
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How do we include people’s real experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis in research? The SUNRISE project explores why subjective experiences remain undervalued, how we might integrate them more fully, and what this means for mental health science. Join the conversation and complete the survey.
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A group of UCL MSc students reflect on a qualitative review looking at the experience of loneliness among people with psychosis, which makes actionable clinical suggestions to enhance connection and address isolation.
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Dhea Bengardi summarises a Delphi study that involved lived experience and researcher stakeholders in developing a comprehensive set of guidelines for involving youth with lived and living experience of suicide in suicide research.
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Laura Hemming explores a new systematic review out today in The Lancet Psychiatry, which stresses the importance of involving of people with lived experience of mental health disorders in co-developing research outcome measures.
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Magenta Simmons and Belle Boland consider an umbrella review on the effectiveness and implementation of peer support interventions in mental health.
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